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• The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived.

  Karl Marx

  Circles, Understanding, Details

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• In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse.

  Karl Marx

  Economics, Grows, Laborers

  "The Communist Manifesto: with selections from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte and Capital by Karl Marx".

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• The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Doctrine, Needs

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• Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

  Karl Marx

  Rewards, Quantity, Labour

  Karl Marx, Hugh Griffith, F. Engels (2009). “Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels”, p.97, Collector's Library

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• Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.

  Karl Marx

  Doe, Commerce, Capitalist

  Karl Marx (2016). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume II: The Economist”, p.486, VM eBooks

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• Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.

  Karl Marx

  Fashion, Flower, Moving

  "Collected Works", v. 3, " Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right" by Karl Marx, 1843.

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• A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation.

  Karl Marx

  Duration, Determined, Individual

  Karl Marx (1974). “Capital: The process of circulation of capital”

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• All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice.

  Karl Marx

  Peace, Ubuntu, Practice

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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.

  Karl Marx

  Division Of Labor, Horizon, Phases

  Critique of the Gotha Program pt. 1 (1875).

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• The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.

  Karl Marx

  Bourgeoisie, Communist Manifesto, Instruments

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.44, Haymarket Books

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• In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

  Karl Marx

  Communist Manifesto, Increase, Proportion

  Karl Marx (1950). “Communist Manifesto: The revolutionary text that changed the course of history”, p.1831, Harriman House Limited

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• Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of exchange. But it cannot be its own or its own standard of comparison.

  Karl Marx

  Oxen, Commodity, Standards

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

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• The circulation of capital realizes value , while living labour creates value .

  Karl Marx

  Realizing, Circulation, Labour

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, Notebook V, The Chapter on Capital, p. 463, 1857-1858.

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• In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be put an end to. In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Individual, Antagonism

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.264, Cambridge University Press

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• The redeeming feature of war is that it puts a nation to the test. As exposure to the atmosphere reduces all mummies to instant dissolution, so war passes supreme judgment upon social systems that have outlived their vitality.

  Karl Marx

  War, Atmosphere, Tests

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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.

  Karl Marx

  Automation, Machines, Form

  "Capital, Volume I". Book by Karl Marx, Vol. I, Ch. 15, Section 1, pg. 416, 1867.

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• English law in 1572 decreed that beggars above 14 years of age are to be severely flogged and branded on the left ear unless some one will take them into service for two years; in case of a repetition of the offense, if they are over 18, they are to be executed, unless some one will take them into service for two years; but for the third offence they are to be executed without mercy as felons.

  Karl Marx

  Years, Law, Two

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• The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.

  Karl Marx

  Ideas, Development, Rupture

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.81, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

  Karl Marx

  Birthday, Class, Ideas

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “The Communist Manifesto (Diversion Classics)”, p.26, Diversion Books

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• Parliamentary cretinism: that peculiar malady which since 1848 has raged all over the Continent, which holds those infected by it fast in an imaginary world and robs them of all sense, all memory, all understanding of the rude external world.

  Karl Marx

  Memories, Rude, Understanding

  Karl Marx (2008). “The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”, p.91, Wildside Press LLC

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• Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital , in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit .

  Karl Marx

  Expression, Credit, Usury

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, Notebook V, The Chapter on Capital, p. 455, 1857-1858.

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• All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

  Karl Marx

  Real, Men, Air

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1968). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected works in one volume”

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• Religion is the balm of the people.

  Karl Marx

  People

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• There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition).

  Karl Marx

  Path, Royal, Chance

  David Harvey, Karl Marx (2010). “A companion to Marx's Capital”, Verso Books

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• The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

  Karl Marx

  Writing, History, Movement

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1976). “Collected works”

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