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History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

Karl Marx

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Karl Marx
Age: 64 †
Born: 1818
Born: May 5
Died: 1883
Died: March 14
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If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.
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The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction
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History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.
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Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.
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The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.
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In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.
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Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena
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The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.
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Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations.
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May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.
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