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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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• 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 Thus all the physical and intellectual senses have been replaced by ...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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• 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.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Self, Essence

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

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• The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Revolutionary, Working Class

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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.

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  Ghouls, Division Of Labor, Vampire

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

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  Clean Air, Knows

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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.

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  Taken, Together, Succeed

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

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

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  Past, History, Brain

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

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  Suicide, Pain, Self Harm

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

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

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  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.

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  Men, Evil, Alienation

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

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  Philosophical, Men, Ideas

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• If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.

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  Form, Reproduction, Ifs

  Karl Marx (2016). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume I: The Economist”, p.333, VM eBooks

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

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  Philosophical, Europe, Haunting

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

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• Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.

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  Natural, Labour

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

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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.

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  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.

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  Opposites, Luxury

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

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• Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

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  Time, Art, Secret

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

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  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!

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  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.

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  Change, Lying, Communication

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

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• So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development in which the Jews have zealously co-operated. And this evil anti-social aspect of Jewry has grown to a stage at which: it must necessarily collapse.

  Karl Marx

  Evil, Historical, Development

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• The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. About Russia

  Karl Marx

  Stars, Russia, Tactics

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1952). “The Russian menace to Europe: a collection of articles, speeches, letters, and news dispatches, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels”

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