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• Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

  Karl Marx

  Technology, Together, Soil

  Karl Marx (1992). “Marx's Capital”, Lawrence & Wishart Limited

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• In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Spare Time, Mass

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.581, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Circumstances

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• The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.

  Karl Marx

  Past, Superstitions, Revolution

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• The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

  Karl Marx

  Animal, Political, Politics

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

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• Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses

  Karl Marx

  Data, Junk, Empty

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• The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.

  Karl Marx

  Flower, Men, Agnostic

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• Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

  Karl Marx

  White, Long, Black

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• The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Ideas, Intellectual

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1970). “The German Ideology”, p.64, INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO

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• Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.

  Karl Marx

  Real, Movement, Affair

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.182, Cambridge University Press

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• Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of money: 1) private property for private property; 2) society for private property; 3) private property for society. But Christ is alienated God and alienated man. God has value only insofar as he represents Christ, and man has value only insofar as he represents Christ. It is the same with money.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Ideas, Christ

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

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• Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?

  Karl Marx

  Men, Doe, Income

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx (pp. 809 - 810), 1857-1858.

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• Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.

  Karl Marx

  Moving, Hands, Democracy

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• It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.

  Karl Marx

  Religious, Water, Political

  Karl Marx (2018). “The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings: & Selected Writings”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.

  Karl Marx

  Needs, Consumption, Productions

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1987). “Karl Marx Frederick Engels: Collected Works 1857-61”, International Pub

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• Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.

  Karl Marx

  Money, Greed, Fountainhead

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

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• The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism

  Karl Marx

  Criticism, Criticism Of Religion

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• The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Creation Of Man, World

  Karl Marx (2012). “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”, p.113, Courier Corporation

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• One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.

  Karl Marx

  Tasks, World, Philosopher

  Karl Marx (1976). “The German Ideology: Including Theses on Feuerbach and Introduction to The Critique of Political Economy”, Pyr Books

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• One capitalist always kills many.

  Karl Marx

  Capitalist

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.836, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

  Karl Marx

  Life, Determined, Consciousness

  Erich Fromm, Karl Marx (2013). “Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'”, p.162, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy .

  Karl Marx

  Gambling, Debt, Joints

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.827, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.

  Karl Marx

  Work, Workers, Objects

  "Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts". Book by Karl Marx, "Alienated Labor" (p. 134), 1844.

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• If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.

  Karl Marx

  Capitalist, Labourers, Ifs

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• The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got

  Karl Marx

  Country, Men, Working Man

  Karl Marx, Saul Kussiel Padover (1972). “The Karl Marx Library: On revolution”, McGraw-Hill, [1972-77

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