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When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.

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Karl Marx
Age: 64 †
Born: 1818
Born: May 5
Died: 1883
Died: March 14
Economist
Historian
Journalist
Philosopher
Poet
Politician
Revolutionary
Sociologist
Treveris
Karl Heinrich Marx
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Ascendancy

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