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Karl Marx
Age: 64 †
Born: 1818
Born: May 5
Died: 1883
Died: March 14
Economist
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Journalist
Philosopher
Poet
Politician
Revolutionary
Sociologist
Treveris
Karl Heinrich Marx
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The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.
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I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.
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In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
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...the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.
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Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences.
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The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.
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Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper, etc.
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Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.
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Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.
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The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.
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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
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If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.
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The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!
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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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Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations.
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A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.
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So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.
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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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Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence.
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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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