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

Karl Marx

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Ability According Inspirational Need Politics
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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Adjustment Affair Community Establishment Ideal Reality State
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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Appropriate Community Deprive Labour Power Product Society
The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.
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Change Inspirational Task Understand World
Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
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Class Oppress Politics Power
The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.
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Human Proportional Valu World
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.
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Analysis Appearance Commodity Extreme Obvious Physical Strange
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
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Condition Heart Oppression People Religion Soul World
Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man.
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God Man Men Original
Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
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Consist Express Individual Relationship Society
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Age Class Ideas Rule
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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Objective Philosophy Utility Value
Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.
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Control History Past People
In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
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Decrease Increase Labour Proportion Wages Work
Everyone of our relationships with nature and man must be a definite expression of our real, individual life.
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Expression Individual Life Man Nature Relationship
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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Apparatus Army Court Executive Government Identity Tax

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