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Ideas do not exist separately from language.

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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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As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.
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Change the economic base and you will change human beings.
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Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.
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Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.
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There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.
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The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism
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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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Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.
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The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.
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All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.
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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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If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.
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The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews, and what is more, a wonderful means whereby out of money to make more money.
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