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Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality have to adjust itself.

Karl Marx

Religion is the opium of the masses.
KARL MARX

Mass One Liner Opium Religion
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
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.
KARL MARX

Consicous Himself Indeed Lost Man Religion Self Esteem Win
Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
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Class Oppress Politics Power
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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Chain Class Community Country Lose Revolution Rule United Win World
The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man.
KARL MARX

Criticism Foundation Man Religion
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
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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Express Greatness Life Minimalism Store
Ignorance never yet helped anybody.
KARL MARX

Break Up Help Ignorance One Liner Relationship
The demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions.
KARL MARX

Condition Demand Illusion Need
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
A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.
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Easy Heritage People
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
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
As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.
KARL MARX

Commodity exchange Labour Quantity Time Value

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