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• Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

  Karl Marx

  Science, Everyday, Appearance

  Karl Marx, Hugh Griffith, F. Engels (2009). “Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels”, p.105, Collector's Library

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• Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Long, Doe

  Karl Marx (2001). “Marxism, Socialism and Religion”, p.20, Resistance Books

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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.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Sprung Up, Sound

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

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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.

  Karl Marx

  Mind, Unhappy, Energy

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

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• Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophy, World, Study

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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.

  Karl Marx

  Inspirational, Real, Fighting

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

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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.

  Karl Marx

  Christian, Judaism, Jew

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

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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.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Earthquakes, Race

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

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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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• Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.

  Karl Marx

  Kings, Church, Helping

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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.

  Karl Marx

  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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• Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena

  Karl Marx

  Essence, Invisible, Form

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

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• And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives, at the head of the counter-revolution -- what awaits them?

  Karl Marx

  Revolution, Jew, Emancipation

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

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• All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

  Karl Marx

  Essence, Would Be, Appearance

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.532, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.

  Karl Marx

  Style, Rifles, Citizens

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)”, p.632, Delphi Classics

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• Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market.

  Karl Marx

  House, Construction, Process

  Karl Marx (1997). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: .. Karl Marx: Capital vol.II”

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• It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

  Karl Marx

  Nature, Law, Different

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• The weapon of criticism can never replace the criticism of weapons.

  Karl Marx

  Criticism, Weapons

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• Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.

  Karl Marx

  May, Dirt

  Karl Marx (2016). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume I: The Economist”, p.51, VM eBooks

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• Merely quantitative differences,
  beyond a certain point,
  pass into qualitative changes.

  Karl Marx

  Knowledge, Differences, Certain

  Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.322, OUP Oxford

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• By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of the private capitalists and usurers. But at the same time, banking and credit become the most effective means of driving captialist production beyond its own limits and one of the most effective vehicles of crises and swindle.

  Karl Marx

  Taken, Mean, Hands

  Karl Marx (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Karl Marx: Capital, Vol. 3”, International Pub

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• Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.

  Karl Marx

  Gold, Buying Gold, Silver

  Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.126, OUP Oxford

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• Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Long, Coins

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.145, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Hands, Class

  Karl Marx (1974). “Capital: The process of circulation of capital”

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• We cannot tell by looking at the diamond that it is a commodity. When it serves as a use-value, asthetic or mechanical, on the breast of a harlot, or in the hand of a glasscutter, it is a diamond and not a commodity.

  Karl Marx

  Hands, Use, Commodity

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