The demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions.
KARL MARXMay the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are ‘peaceful’.
More Karl Marx Quotes
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There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
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In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
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Religion is the opium of the masses.
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Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things.
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When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.
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In reality, the laborer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
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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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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.
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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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Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
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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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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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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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Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
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