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The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

Karl Marx

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
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.
KARL MARX

Appropriate Community Deprive Labour Power Product Society
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.
KARL MARX

Express Greatness Life Minimalism Store
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
KARL MARX

Allow Class Decision Oppression Particular Politics Represent
Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.
KARL MARX

Enough Fools Prosperity
The demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions.
KARL MARX

Condition Demand Illusion Need
Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.
KARL MARX

Beyond Change Difference Quantity
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
KARL MARX

Chain Labour Lose United Work World
Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps.
KARL MARX

Camp Greatness Society Split
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
Capital is dead labour, which, vampire like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
KARL MARX

Capital Dead Labour Live Suck Vampire
Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
KARL MARX

Community History Riddle Solution
My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.
KARL MARX

Capital Destroy God Life Objective
Change the economic base and you will change human beings.
KARL MARX

Change Economics Human
The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.
KARL MARX

Change Inspirational Task Understand 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.
KARL MARX

Circumstance Existence History Men Past Please Transmit

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