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• You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a change in society but also to change yourselves, and prepare yourselves for the exercise of political power.

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  War, Struggle, Communication

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

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• There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.

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  Giving Up, Victory, Arms

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• In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party

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  Party, Liberty, May

  Karl Marx (2015). “Manifesto of the Communist Party”, p.18, Booklassic

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• We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us.

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  Rope, Capitalist, Sells

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• The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

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  Philosophical, Struggle, Class

  "Karl Marx as Activist" by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.counterpunch.org. May 7, 2018.

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• The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state

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  Purpose, States, Bureaucracy

  Karl Marx (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Marx and Engels: 1843-44”

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• The way people get their living determines their social outlook.

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  People, Way, Communism

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• Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

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  Freedom, Philosophical, Consciousness

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• Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough.

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  Believe, Lasts, Fool

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• I am nothing but I must be everything.

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  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “On Religion”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

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  Inspiration, Philosophical, Revolution

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Clemens Palme Dutt (1895). “The Class Struggles in France (1848-50)”

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• In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

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  Independent, Individuality, Individualism

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.61, BookCaps Study Guides

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• May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'.

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  Peaceful, Devil, Movement

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• Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

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  Men, Wealth, Commodity

  Karl Marx (2012). “Selected Essays”, p.58, The Floating Press

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• Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

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  Philosophical, Dignity, Communist Manifesto

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

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• It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

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  Men, Consciousness, Communist Manifesto

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1973). “Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by Friedrich Engels”, p.5, University of Chicago Press

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• The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.

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  Spiritual, Political, Social

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• Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it

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  Stupid, Made, Property

  Karl Marx (2007). “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

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  Society, Doe, Individual

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

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• In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

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  Morning, Work, Mind

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.180, Cambridge University Press

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• The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

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  Change, Courage, Peace

  Theses on Feuerbach no. 11 (written 1845). This is the epitaph on Marx's tombstone in Highgate Cemetery, London.

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• With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will I wander god-like and victorious through the ruins of the world. And giving my words an active force, I will feel equal to the Creator.

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  Giving, Atheism, Facts

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• Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as capital ... Thus all the physical and intellectual senses have been replaced by ... the sense of having.

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  Stupid, Intellectual, Made

  Erich Fromm, Karl Marx (2013). “Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'”, p.112, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Utility

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.462, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the conflict between existence and essence, objectification and self-affirmation, freedom and necessity, individual and species. It is the riddle of history solved and knows itself as the solution.

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  Men, Self, Essence

  Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.71, Hackett Publishing

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