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• The wealthy man is the man whois much, not the one who has much

  Karl Marx

  Inspiration, Men, He Man

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• Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without willing it or knowing it. The real point is not that each individual's pursuit of his private interest promotes the totality of private interests, the general interest. One could just as well deduce from this abstract phrase that each individual reciprocally blocks the assertion of the others' interests, so that, instead of a general affirmation, this war of all against all produces a general negation.

  Karl Marx

  Block, Real, War

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, Notebook I, The Chapter on Money, p. 76, 1857-1858.

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• Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Community, Individual

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1970). “The German Ideology”, p.83, INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO

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• The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.

  Karl Marx

  God, Men, Attributes

  Erich Fromm, Karl Marx (2013). “Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'”, p.83, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The past lies like a nightmare upon the present.

  Karl Marx

  Lying, Past, Nightmare

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• Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

  Karl Marx

  Ghouls, Division Of Labor, Vampire

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• They don't know it, but they are doing it.

  Karl Marx

  Clean Air, Knows

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• The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Revolutionary, Working Class

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• Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations.

  Karl Marx

  Taken, Together, Succeed

  Karl Marx (1977). “Capital: a critique of political economy”, Vintage

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• If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, the universal agent of separation?

  Karl Marx

  Money, Men, Ties

  Karl Marx, Martin Milligan (1974). “Economic and philosophic manuscripts of 1844”

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• Ideas do not exist separately from language.

  Karl Marx

  Ideas, Language

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.

  Karl Marx

  Plunder, Position, Ascendancy

  Karl Marx (1932). “Capital: The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings”

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• Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophical, Men, Ideas

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• The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

  Karl Marx

  Past, History, Brain

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• Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

  Karl Marx

  Machines, May, Weapons

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1976). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works”, International Pub

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• The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Evil, Alienation

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• There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.

  Karl Marx

  Suicide, Pain, Self Harm

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1993). “Collected Works: Marx and Engels, 1880-83”, International Pub

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• A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophical, Europe, Haunting

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1908). “Manifesto of the Communist Party”

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• ...the French Revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order. The revolutionary movement which began in 1789... gave rise to the communist idea which Babeuf's friend Buonarroti re-introduced in France after the Revolution of 1830. This idea, consistently developed, is the idea of the new world order.

  Karl Marx

  Communication, Ideas, Order

  Karl Marx (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: 1844-45”, International Pub

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• Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.

  Karl Marx

  Opposites, Luxury

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, Notebook V, The Chapter on Capital, p. 448, 1857 - 1858.

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• The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!

  Karl Marx

  Country, Winning, Men

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.130, BookCaps Study Guides

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• As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Hands, Brain

  "Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production".

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• Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Oppression, Antagonism

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.234, Cambridge University Press

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• Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!

  Karl Marx

  Moses, Prophet

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• Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.

  Karl Marx

  Change, Lying, Communication

  Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.328, Hackett Publishing

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