Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
I am nothing but I must be everything.
A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence.
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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!
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it
May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'.
One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.
Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.
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
Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as capital ... Thus all the physical and intellectual senses have been replaced by ... the sense of having.
The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.
The past lies like a nightmare upon the present.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
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