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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
Economist
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Revolutionary
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Karl Heinrich Marx
Marx
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The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy .
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Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.
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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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A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.
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By the aristocracy of finance must here be understood not merely the great loan promoters and speculators in public funds, in regard to whom it is immediately obvious that their interests coincide with the interests of the state power. All modern finance, the whole of the banking business, is interwoven in the closest fashion with public credit.
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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
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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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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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Music is the mirror of reality.
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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 method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.
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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
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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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...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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These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.
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The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.
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