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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

Karl Marx

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Karl Marx
Age: 64 †
Born: 1818
Born: May 5
Died: 1883
Died: March 14
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Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.
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In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
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Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.
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But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything.
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If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.
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If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.
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May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'.
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All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.
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Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.
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The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.
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Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.
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With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will I wander god-like and victorious through the ruins of the world. And giving my words an active force, I will feel equal to the Creator.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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