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It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

Karl Marx

Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.
KARL MARX

Enough Fools Prosperity
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
KARL MARX

Business Humour People Production Result Technology
To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself.
KARL MARX

Himself Man Matter Radical Root
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
KARL MARX

Class History Society Struggle
The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.
KARL MARX

Change Inspirational Task Understand World
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
In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
KARL MARX

Decrease Increase Labour Proportion Wages Work
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
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.
KARL MARX

Demand Happiness People Religion
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
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!
KARL MARX

Chain Class Community Country Lose Revolution Rule United Win World
As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.
KARL MARX

Commodity exchange Labour Quantity Time Value
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
KARL MARX

Age Class Ideas Rule
In reality, the laborer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
KARL MARX

Belong Capital Himself Labour Reality
The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.
KARL MARX

Capital Deep Hang Rope Soul
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

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