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 MARXCommunism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be in itself a power.
More Karl Marx Quotes
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I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.
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Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
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The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry.
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
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The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.
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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.
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The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
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The demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions.
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Every opinion based on scientific criticism I welcome.
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In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
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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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The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc.
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life – the greater is the store of your estranged being.
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As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.
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