The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.
KARL MARXCapital is dead labour, which, vampire like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.
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All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
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A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.
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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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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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A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.
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Capital is dead labour, which, vampire like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
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Democracy is the road to socialism.
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Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries unite!
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This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial features.
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I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.
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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.
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Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.
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Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again.
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