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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.

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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Karl Heinrich Marx
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