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I am nothing but I must be everything.

Karl Marx

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Karl Marx
Age: 64 †
Born: 1818
Born: May 5
Died: 1883
Died: March 14
Economist
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Journalist
Philosopher
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Revolutionary
Sociologist
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Karl Heinrich Marx
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We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history of nature and the history of mankind. However, the two sides are not to be divided off as long as men exist the history of nature and the history of men are mutually conditioned.
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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.
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Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle.
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So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development in which the Jews have zealously co-operated. And this evil anti-social aspect of Jewry has grown to a stage at which: it must necessarily collapse.
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The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews, and what is more, a wonderful means whereby out of money to make more money.
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Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.
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Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.
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Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough.
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The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.
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Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.
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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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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.
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A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work beyond beyond the time necessary for the reproduction of his means of subsistence, say 8 hours a day.
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I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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