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Karl Marx

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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Chain Class Community Country Lose Revolution Rule United Win World
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
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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Circumstance Existence History Men Past Please Transmit
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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Absence History Opposite Peace Social
Education is free. Freedoom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state.
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Condition Control Education Enjoyment Freedom Law State Supreme
The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
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Criticism Religion Tears
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
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Class Existence History Society Struggle
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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Capital Dead Labour Live Suck Vampire
Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
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Class Oppress Politics Power
Religion is the opium of the masses.
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Mass One Liner Opium Religion
The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.
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Change Inspirational Task Understand World
Money is the alienated essence of man’s labor and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.
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Dominate Essence Himself Labour Life Man Money Worship
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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Express Greatness Life Minimalism Store
Take away a nation’s heritage and they are more easily persuaded.
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Away Easy Heritage Nation
The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.
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Capital Deep Hang Rope Soul
Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.
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Beyond Change Difference Quantity

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