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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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...the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.
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Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.
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If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.
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Change the economic base and you will change human beings.
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It's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way.
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In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.
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Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex.
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But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.
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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
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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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In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.
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As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.
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The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material.
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To discover the various use of things is the work of history.
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
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In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.
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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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The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.
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