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Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

Karl Marx

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

Condition Conscious Contray Determination Social
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
KARL MARX

History Repeat Tragedy
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
In reality, the laborer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
KARL MARX

Belong Capital Himself Labour Reality
The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man.
KARL MARX

Criticism Foundation Man Religion
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
The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.
KARL MARX

Human Proportional Valu World
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.
KARL MARX

Apparatus Army Court Executive Government Identity Tax
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
KARL MARX

History Locomotive One Liner Revolution
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.
KARL MARX

Appropriate Community Deprive Labour Power Product Society
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
KARL MARX

Objective Philosophy Utility Value
A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.
KARL MARX

Easy Heritage People
Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
KARL MARX

Black Black Lives Matter Brand Freedom Labour Skin White
The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions.
KARL MARX

Care Children Education Institution Moments Mother State
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
KARL MARX

Age Class Ideas Rule
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

Adjustment Affair Community Establishment Ideal Reality State

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