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• Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Race, Years

  Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.72, OUP Oxford

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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.

  Karl Marx

  Character, Class, Want

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.60, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.

  Karl Marx

  Substance, Wealth, Form

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, Notebook II, The Chapter on Money, p. 141, 1857-1858.

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• An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Increase, Labour

  Karl Marx (2005). “Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy”, Penguin UK

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• The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

  Karl Marx

  Time, Science, Scientist

  "Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844". Book by Karl Marx, "Relative and Absolute Surplus Value", 1932.

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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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  Mean, Smell, Looks

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.89, Cambridge University Press

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• Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but deformity for the worker. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back to barbaric labor, and it turns the remainder into machines.

  Karl Marx

  Work, Palaces, Machines

  "Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts". Book by Karl Marx, "Alienated Labor" (p. 135), 1983.

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• If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy in pursuit of criminal designs, playing upon national prejudices, and squandering in piratical wars the people's blood and treasure? It was not the wisdom of the ruling classes, but the heroic resistance to their criminal folly by the working classes of England, that saved the west of Europe from plunging headlong into an infamous crusade for the propagation of slavery on the other side of the Atlantic.

  Karl Marx

  War, Blood, Europe

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.581, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.

  Karl Marx

  Animal, Men, Delight

  Karl Marx (1932). “Capital: The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings”

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• An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.

  Karl Marx

  Art, Pleasure, Produce

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• All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

  Karl Marx

  Money, Earth, Cash

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• Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

  Karl Marx

  Numbers, Doubt, Idlers

  Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling, Friedrich Engels (2011). “Capital, Volume I: A Critique of Political Economy”, p.405, Courier Corporation

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• In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed - a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Long, Competition

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.251, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

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  Passion, Mean, Violent

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.455, Oxford University Press, USA

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• These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time.

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  Obstacles, Individual, Capacity

  Karl Marx (1967). “Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalistic Production”

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• Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.

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  Reality, Expression, Form

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, 1857-1858.

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• In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment against the bourgeoisie in the interest of the exploited working class alone. Thus, the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new masters and whispering in his ears sinister prophesies of coming catastrophe.

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  Revenge, Class, Sight

  Karl Marx, Frederick Engels (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.36, Haymarket Books

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• In all of human history no country or no people have suffered such terrible slavery, conquest and foreign oppression and no country and no people have struggled so strenuously for their emancipation than Sicily and the Sicilians.

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  Country, People, Slavery

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• The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

  Karl Marx

  Civilization, Environmental, Done

  Karl Marx, David Fernbach (1981). “Capital: a critique of political economy”

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• The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker.

  Karl Marx

  Work, Workers, Products

  Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.61, Hackett Publishing

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• Religion is the opiate of the people.

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  Religious, People, Religion

  "Marx is dead: don't resuscitate him" by Linsey McGoey, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2008.

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• ...it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be.

  Karl Marx

  Criticism, Littles, Conflict

  Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). “German socialist philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• [Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.

  Karl Marx

  Swept Away, Establishment

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• In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims.

  Karl Marx

  Identity, Way, States

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Collected works”

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• If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin.

  Karl Marx

  Suffering, Skins, Looks

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