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.
KARL MARXChrist represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man.
More Karl Marx Quotes
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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.
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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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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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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
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A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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Change the economic base and you will change human beings.
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The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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Follow your own path, no matter what people say.
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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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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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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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In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
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