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Karl Marx
Age: 64 †
Born: 1818
Born: May 5
Died: 1883
Died: March 14
Economist
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Journalist
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Revolutionary
Sociologist
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Karl Heinrich Marx
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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
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...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.
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The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity .
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The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races.
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Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.
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Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence.
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In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.
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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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The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material.
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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.
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It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.
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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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Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels.
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The weapon of criticism can never replace the criticism of weapons.
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The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.
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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
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History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.
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One capitalist always kills many.
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Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.
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The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.
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