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• Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

  Karl Marx

  Historical, Tragedy, Farce

  Karl Marx (1935). “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”, New York : International publishers

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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.

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  Men, Hands, Brain

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

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• Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.

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  Christian, Giving, Asceticism

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.94, BookCaps Study Guides

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

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  Needs, Consumption, Productions

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

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• Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore violates the conditions necessary to lasting fertility of the soil. By this action it destroys at the same time the health of the town labourer and the intellectual life of the rural labourer.

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  Men, Intellectual, Fertility

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)”, p.1529, Delphi Classics

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• The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer.

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  Self, Fundamentals, Accumulation

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.848, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.

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  Cheating, War, Franklin

  Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling, Friedrich Engels (2011). “Capital, Volume I: A Critique of Political Economy”, p.182, Courier Corporation

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• What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development of production; that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; and that dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.

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  Struggle, Class, Historical

  Karl Marx (2008). “The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”, p.139, Wildside Press LLC

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• Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.

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  Cracks, Authority, Crisis

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• The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

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  Bourgeoisie, Common, Affair

  Karl Marx, Frederick Engels (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.145, Haymarket Books

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• The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs.

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  Spring, People, Sound

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• But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense, the more dogmatically they are asserted and the more deceitful, moralizing and spiritual becomes the language of established society.

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  Spiritual, Class, Common Sense

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• The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

  Karl Marx

  Generations, Nightmare, Tradition

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• Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God.

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  Existence, Existence Of God, Materials

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.167, Oxford University Press, USA

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

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  Data, Junk, Empty

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• Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper, etc.

  Karl Marx

  Russia, Race, Names

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1987). “Marx and Engels: 1864-68”, International Pub

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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.

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  Past, Superstitions, Revolution

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• The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.

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  Love, Needs, Communist

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1988). “The Communist Manifesto”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it. Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with there capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated.

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  Mean, Sprung Up, Sound

  Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.29, OUP Oxford

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• From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again.

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  Christian, Judaism, Jew

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

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• The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself.

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  Mind, Unhappy, Energy

  Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). “German socialist philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

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  Inspirational, Real, Fighting

  David McLellan, Karl Marx (1972). “The thought of Karl Marx: an introduction”

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• Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.

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  Class, Earthquakes, Race

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1962). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels on Britain”

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• The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalised the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production.

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  Hunting, Discovery, America

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.823, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

  Karl Marx

  Life, Happiness, Philosophical

  Karl Marx, Loyd David Easton, Kurt H. Guddat (1997). “Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society”, p.39, Hackett Publishing

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