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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Karl Marx

Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.
KARL MARX

Clothes Condition Himself History Man Politics
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
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Allow Class Decision Oppression Particular Politics Represent
The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.
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Human Proportional Valu World
I am nothing but I must be everything.
KARL MARX

Deep Inspirational Minimalism One Liner
Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation.
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Appropriate Community Deprive Labour Power Product Society
Capital is dead labour, which, vampire like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
KARL MARX

Capital Dead Labour Live Suck Vampire
All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
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Appearance Essence Science
Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man.
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God Man Men Original
If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.
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Control Declutter Easy History People
Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality have to adjust itself.
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Adjustment Affair Community Establishment Ideal Reality State
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
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Change Interpret Philosophy Resistance World
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
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Condition Heart Oppression People Religion Soul World
The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions.
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Care Children Education Institution Moments Mother State
I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.
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Fight Money Reason
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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History Locomotive One Liner Revolution
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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Consicious Freedom Necessary

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