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

Karl Marx

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.
KARL MARX

Demand Happiness People Religion
Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.
KARL MARX

Circumstance Existence History Men Past Please Transmit
There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.
KARL MARX

Chance Climb Gain Path Road Royal Science Summit
Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things.
KARL MARX

Money Universe Value
I am a machine condemned to devour books.
KARL MARX

Book Machine One Liner
Education is free. Freedoom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state.
KARL MARX

Condition Control Education Enjoyment Freedom Law State Supreme
Take away a nation’s heritage and they are more easily persuaded.
KARL MARX

Away Easy Heritage Nation
Communism begins where atheism begins.
KARL MARX

Atheist Beginning Community One Liner
Democracy is the road to socialism.
KARL MARX

Democracy One Liner Road Social
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole.
KARL MARX

Accumulation Brutal Ignorance Misery Opposite Pole Slave Time Wealth
Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.
KARL MARX

Carry Social Strength Strong Weakness
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
KARL MARX

Female Measure Position Progress Sex Social
Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.
KARL MARX

Apparatus Army Court Executive Government Identity Tax
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.
KARL MARX

Condition Heart Oppression People Religion Soul World
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
KARL MARX

Absence History Opposite Peace Social
Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering.
KARL MARX

Against Expression Protest Religious Suffering Time

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