Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
KARL MARXAs exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.
More Karl Marx Quotes
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Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.
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If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.
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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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Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps.
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Capital is dead labour, which, vampire like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
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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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The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
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The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
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Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.
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You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.
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Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.
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In history as in nature, decay is the laboratory of life.
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The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.
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