The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Karl Marx

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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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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.

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The will of the capitalist is certainly to take as much as possible. What we have to do is not to talk about his will, but to enquire about his power, the limits of that power, and the character of those limits.

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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.

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Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist t... by Karl Marx

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

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

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Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and he must do so in all social formations and under all possible modes of production.

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A people without a heritage are easily persuaded. by Karl Marx

A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.

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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.

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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

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A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism. by Karl Marx

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

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As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone .

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One capitalist always kills many. by Karl Marx

One capitalist always kills many.

...the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.

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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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It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce... by Karl Marx

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

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Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.

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Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

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You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.

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An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.

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