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All I know is that I 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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Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.
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Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence this essence dominates him and he worships it.
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An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.
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Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.
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So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
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Music is the mirror of reality.
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Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper, etc.
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You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a change in society but also to change yourselves, and prepare yourselves for the exercise of political power.
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