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The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.

Karl Marx

Education is free. Freedoom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state.
KARL MARX

Condition Control Education Enjoyment Freedom Law State Supreme
The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions.
KARL MARX

Care Children Education Institution Moments Mother State
Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.
KARL MARX

Himself Illusion Man Religion Revolve Sun
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
KARL MARX

Class History Society Struggle
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 MARX

Analysis Appearance Commodity Extreme Obvious Physical Strange
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
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
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.
KARL MARX

Apparatus Army Court Executive Government Identity Tax
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.
KARL MARX

Clothes Condition Himself History Man Politics
The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.
KARL MARX

Change Inspirational Task Understand World
The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
KARL MARX

Criticism Religion Tears
Your favourite virtue – Simplicity.
KARL MARX

Minimalism One Liner Simplicity Virtue
If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.
KARL MARX

Control Declutter Easy History People
Perseus wore a magic cap down over his eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.
KARL MARX

Believe Cap Ears Eyes Magic Monster
We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.
KARL MARX

Abolishment Community Movement Present State

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