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It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.
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 bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley of ties that bound man to his natural superiors, and left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous cash payment.
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The redeeming feature of war is that it puts a nation to the test. As exposure to the atmosphere reduces all mummies to instant dissolution, so war passes supreme judgment upon social systems that have outlived their vitality.
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Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy.
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I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.
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Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.
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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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The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!
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To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
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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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Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences.
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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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Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
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Every one knows that there are no real forests in England.The deer in the parks of the great are demurely domestic cattle, fat as London alderman.
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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
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