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It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.

Karl Marx

Tired, Fighting, Hair

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

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So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.

Karl Marx

Pearls, Diamond, Chemist

Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.75, Cambridge University Press

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Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people.

Karl Marx

People, Religion, Opiates

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England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia... When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch... and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain.

Karl Marx

Idols, Skulls, Progress

"The Future Results of British Rule in India," New York Daily Tribune, August 8, 1853.

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Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life.

Karl Marx

Hair, Holy Grail, Gold

Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.149, Cosimo, Inc.

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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

Karl Marx

Revolution, Spirit, Generalization

"Challenge to Karl Marx, Volume 25". Book by John Kenneth Turner (p. 219), 1941.

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The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

Karl Marx

Philosophy, Circles, Political

Karl Marx, Joseph O'Malley (1977). “Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy Of Right'”, p.47, CUP Archive

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But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything.

Karl Marx

Self, Differences, People

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

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Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.

Karl Marx

Mean, World, Able

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1998). “The Communist Manifesto and Its Relevance for Today”, p.50, Resistance Books

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I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.

Karl Marx

Thinking, Something New, Reader

Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.453, Oxford University Press, USA

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History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes.

Karl Marx

Real, Mean, Fighting

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Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.

Karl Marx

Real, Usury, Judaism

Karl Marx (2015). “A World Without Jews”, p.35, Open Road Media

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To discover the various use of things is the work of history.

Karl Marx

Use, Various

Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.42, Cosimo, Inc.

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Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels.

Karl Marx

Uprising, India, Rebel

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All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

Karl Marx

Intellectual, Invention, Force

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In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.

Karl Marx

Fall, Safety, Gold

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1959). “Basic writings on politics and philosophy”, Anchor

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But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.... The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.

Karl Marx

Home, Character, Class

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1973). “Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by Friedrich Engels”, p.63, University of Chicago Press

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Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production

Karl Marx

Children, School, Free Education

Karl Marx (1950). “Communist Manifesto: The revolutionary text that changed the course of history”, p.1844, Harriman House Limited

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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Karl Marx

Simple, Intelligent, Levels

Das Kapital vol. 1, ch. 16 (1867) (translation by Ben Fowkes)

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A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the Party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

Karl Marx

Party, Europe, Police

Karl Marx (2018). “The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings: & Selected Writings”, p.9, Pan Macmillan

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I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.

Karl Marx

Attitude, Two, Principles

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

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In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interest of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality.

Karl Marx

Country, Struggle, Different

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “The Communist Manifesto (Diversion Classics)”, p.18, Diversion Books

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The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.

Karl Marx

Tools, Despotism, Strongholds

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[T]he task of abolishing the essence of Jewry is in truth the task of abolishing Jewry in civil society, abolishing the inhumanity of today's practice of life, the summit of which is the money system.

Karl Marx

Essence, Practice, Tasks

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “The holy family”, p.148, Рипол Классик

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Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other.

Karl Marx

Class, Two, Bourgeoisie

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.40, Haymarket Books

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Born: May 5, 1818
Died: March 14, 1883
Occupation: Philosopher
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