The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.
KARL MARXMoney is the alienated essence of man’s labor and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.
More Karl Marx Quotes
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The theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
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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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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc.
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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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If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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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.
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Your favourite virtue – Simplicity.
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Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.
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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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As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.
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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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The demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions.
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