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• When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.

  Karl Marx

  Individuality, Capability, Labourers

  Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling, Friedrich Engels (2011). “Capital, Volume I: A Critique of Political Economy”, p.361, Courier Corporation

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• The will of the capitalist is certainly to take as much as possible. What we have to do is not to talk about his will, but to enquire about his power, the limits of that power, and the character of those limits.

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  Character, Limits, Capitalist

  Karl Marx, Hugh Griffith, F. Engels (2009). “Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels”, p.71, Collector's Library

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• Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up with the crude English method of development, of course. Despite all deficiencies not only is the death-blow dealt here for the first time to 'teleology' in the natural sciences, but their rational meaning is empirically explained.

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  Struggle, Book, Science

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1942). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes”

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• The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.

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  Ends, Motive, Aim

  Karl Marx (2012). “Das Kapital: A Critique of Political Economy”, p.178, Regnery Publishing

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• It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only momentarily, and at that always only as the harbinger of a coming crisis.

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  Independent, Class, Prosperity

  Karl Marx (1997). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: .. Karl Marx: Capital vol.II”

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• The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

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  Division Of Labor, Competition, Together

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1973). “Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by Friedrich Engels”, p.97, University of Chicago Press

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• As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone .

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  Hands, Variables, Way

  Karl Marx (1978). “Capital: a critique of political economy”

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• Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

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  Men, Restoration, World

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Robert C. Tucker (1972). “The Marx-Engels reader”

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• It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

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  Mean, Men, Use

  David McLellan, Karl Marx (1972). “The thought of Karl Marx: an introduction”

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• I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.

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  Book, Machines

  "The letters of Karl Marx".

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• Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

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  Philosophical, Health, Length Of Life

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.296, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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  Art, Sensitive, Enjoy

  Karl Marx (1973). “Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy”, Vintage Books USA

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• We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history of nature and the history of mankind. However, the two sides are not to be divided off; as long as men exist the history of nature and the history of men are mutually conditioned.

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  Nature, Science, Men

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• The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

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  Writing, Mean, Order

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• The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley of ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment.

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  Men, Self, Hands

  Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.161, Hackett Publishing

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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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  Men, Alive, Landscape

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• The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

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  Country, Shows

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.13, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

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  Philosophy, Greek, Tragedy

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works”, London : Lawrence & Wishart

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• A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production.

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  Greatness, Relative Value, Substance

  Karl Marx (1913). “Value, Price and Profit”

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• Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period of peace.

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  Dog, Periods, Democrat

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1983). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”

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• The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.

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  Mean, Expression, Class

  Karl Marx, Frederick Engels (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.16, Haymarket Books

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• Moments are the elements of profit

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  Elements, Moments, Profit

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.267, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and he must do so in all social formations and under all possible modes of production.

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  Men, People, Savages

  Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.738, OUP Oxford

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• There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not by the offended, but by the offender himself. The first blow dealt to the French monarchy proceeded from the nobility, not from the peasants. The Indian revolt does not commence with the ryots, tortured, dishonoured and stripped naked by the British, but with the sepoys, clad, fed and petted, fatted and pampered by them.

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  Blow, Historical, Firsts

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin (1986). “India, National Liberation and Class Struggles: A Collection of Classical Marxist Writings”

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• If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people.

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  Selfish, Sacrifice, People

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

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