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In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

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Karl Marx
Age: 64 †
Born: 1818
Born: May 5
Died: 1883
Died: March 14
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