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Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
-Karl Marx
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Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld dominationis immutable.
-Karl Marx
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Authors & Writing
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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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Capitalism
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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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Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
-Karl Marx
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Communism
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The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
-Karl Marx
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A specter is haunting Europe -- the specter of communism.
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All I know is I'm not a Marxist.
-Karl Marx
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Conservation
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The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
-Karl Marx
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Culture
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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
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Experience
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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
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History
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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
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Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given, and transmitted from the past.
-Karl Marx, Letter to Joseph Wedemeyer, March 5, 1852
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Individuality
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In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
-Karl Marx
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Industry
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Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.
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Intelligence
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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
-Karl Marx
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Land
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Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
-Karl Marx
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Machines, Machinery
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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
-Karl Marx
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Medicine
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
-Karl Marx
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Money
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.
-Karl Marx
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Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
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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
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Nature
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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
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Necessity
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
-Karl Marx
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Opportunity
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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
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Books by and about Karl Marx