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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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Karl Marx
Age: 64 †
Born: 1818
Born: May 5
Died: 1883
Died: March 14
Economist
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Karl Heinrich Marx
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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
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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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With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will I wander god-like and victorious through the ruins of the world. And giving my words an active force, I will feel equal to the Creator.
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Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
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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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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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The wealthy man is the man whois much, not the one who has much
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The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.
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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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The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.
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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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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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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.
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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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Change the economic base and you will change human beings.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.
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It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
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