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All I know is I'm 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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Karl Heinrich Marx
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The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities.
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The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races.
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The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.
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The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism
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May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'.
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Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange it is a product of the same.
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The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs.
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Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.
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The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.
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When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.
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...the French Revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order. The revolutionary movement which began in 1789... gave rise to the communist idea which Babeuf's friend Buonarroti re-introduced in France after the Revolution of 1830. This idea, consistently developed, is the idea of the new world order.
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We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
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In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.
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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
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Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
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Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.
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Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.
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I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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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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