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The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.

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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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In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party
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Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it.
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All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital , and allowed to live only so far as the interest to the ruling class requires it.
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The unity is brought about by force .
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital .
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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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History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes.
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Follow your own path, no matter what people say.
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He who before was the money owner, now strides in front as capitalist the possessor of labor-power follows as his laborer. The one with an air of importance, smirking, intent on business the other hesitant, like one who is bringing his own hide to market and has nothing to expect but a hiding.
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One capitalist always kills many.
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The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.
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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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Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
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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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I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.
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And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives, at the head of the counter-revolution -- what awaits them?
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
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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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