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• Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

  Karl Marx

  Money, Eggs, Golden

  "Capital, Volume I". Book by Karl Marx, Vol. I, Ch. 4, pp. 171 - 172, 1867.

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• No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.

  Karl Marx

  Bourgeoisie, Wages, Cash

  Karl Marx (1950). “Communist Manifesto: The revolutionary text that changed the course of history”, p.1832, Harriman House Limited

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• Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

  Karl Marx

  Communication, Communist Manifesto, Communism

  Karl Marx (2012). “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

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  Exercise, Effort, Growth

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• The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.

  Karl Marx

  Self, Return, Moments

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

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• The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.

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  Firsts, Facts, Individual

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1970). “The German Ideology”, p.42, INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO

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• Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.

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  Needs, Language, Consciousness

  "The German Ideology". Book by Karl Marx, Vol. III, 30, 1845-1846.

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• The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralization of state power will be useful for the centralization of the German working class. German predominance would also transfer the center of gravity of the workers' movement in Western Europe from France to Germany, and one has only to compare the movement in the two countries from 1866 until now to see that the German working class is superior to the French both theoretically and organizationally.

  Karl Marx

  Country, Mean, Winning

  "The Karl Marx Library: On revolution".

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• Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.

  Karl Marx

  Tasks, Matter, Projects

  Karl Marx, Eugene Kamenka (1983). “The Portable Karl Marx”, Viking Adult

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• Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.

  Karl Marx

  Cash, Social Consciousness, Ideals

  Karl Marx (2012). “The Essential Marx”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• Usury lives in the pores of production, as it were, just as the gods of Epicurus lived in the space between the worlds.

  Karl Marx

  Space, World, Usury

  Karl Marx (1974). “Capital: The process of capitalist production as a whole”

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• The labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.

  Karl Marx

  Hands, Long, Commodity

  Karl Marx (1957). “Capital”

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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.

  Karl Marx

  Air, Hiding, Owners

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• In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.

  Karl Marx

  Responsibility, Ideas, Competition

  Karl Marx (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works”

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• Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.

  Karl Marx

  Eggs, Golden, Occult

  Karl Marx, Eden Paul (1933). “Capital”

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• I am nothing and should be everything.

  Karl Marx

  Fear, Atheism, Rage

  Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.37, Hackett Publishing

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• The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.

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  Winning, World, Uniting

  "The Communist Manifesto". Book by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, 1848.

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• Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868)

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  July, Practice, Connections

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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.

  Karl Marx

  Reality, Cells, Imagination

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.198, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.

  Karl Marx

  Science, Technology, Funny Science

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.406, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on a mass scale is necessary, an alteration which can only take place in a practical movement, a revolution; this revolution is necessary, therefore, not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Class, Age

  Karl Marx, Frederick Engels (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.19, Haymarket Books

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• Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

  Karl Marx

  Museums, Civilization, Dancer

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

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• The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities.

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  Life, Negative, Reason

  Karl Marx (1975). “Early writings”, Vintage

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• As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

  Karl Marx

  Life, Real, Party

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”

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• The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.

  Karl Marx

  Bourgeoisie, Needs, Communist Manifesto

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.18, BookCaps Study Guides

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