Karl Marx Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes.

  Karl Marx

  Real, Mean, Fighting

• The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophical, Struggle, Class

  "Karl Marx as Activist" by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.counterpunch.org. May 7, 2018.

• Men make their own history

  Karl Marx

  Men, History, Communist Manifesto

  The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon pt. 1 (1852)

• The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

  Karl Marx

  Past, History, Brain

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

  Karl Marx

  Writing, History, Movement

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1976). “Collected works”

• We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history of nature and the history of mankind. However, the two sides are not to be divided off; as long as men exist the history of nature and the history of men are mutually conditioned.

  Karl Marx

  Nature, Science, Men

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