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If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

Karl Marx

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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Abolishment Community Philosophy Private Property Sentence Theory
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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Clothes Condition Himself History Man Politics
Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.
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Himself Illusion Man Religion Revolve Sun
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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Absence History Opposite Peace Social
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole.
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Accumulation Brutal Ignorance Misery Opposite Pole Slave Time Wealth
We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
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Compassion Excuse Terror
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
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Change Interpret Philosophy Resistance World
Ignorance never yet helped anybody.
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Break Up Help Ignorance One Liner Relationship
Moments are the elements of profit.
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Business Economics Element Moments One Liner Profit
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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Chain Labour Lose United Work World
There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
KARL MARX

Communication Country Haunt Spectacular
Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again.
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Consicous Himself Indeed Lost Man Religion Self Esteem Win
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
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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Circumstance Existence History Men Past Please Transmit
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
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
KARL MARX

History Repeat Tragedy

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