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• Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.

  Karl Marx

  Tasks, Matter, Projects

  Karl Marx, Eugene Kamenka (1983). “The Portable Karl Marx”, Viking Adult

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• Usury lives in the pores of production, as it were, just as the gods of Epicurus lived in the space between the worlds.

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  Space, World, Usury

  Karl Marx (1974). “Capital: The process of capitalist production as a whole”

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• Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld dominationis immutable.

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  Russia, Tactics, May

  Speech delivered in London, January 22, 1867.

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• Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.

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  Cash, Social Consciousness, Ideals

  Karl Marx (2012). “The Essential Marx”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• Religion is the balm of the people.

  Karl Marx

  People

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• A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

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  Children, Men

  Karl Marx, Terrell Carver (1996). “Marx: Later Political Writings”, p.157, Cambridge University Press

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• Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle.

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  Horse, Doctors, Law

  Karl Marx (1975). “Early writings”, Vintage

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• In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.

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  Responsibility, Ideas, Competition

  Karl Marx (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works”

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• The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.

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  Winning, World, Uniting

  "The Communist Manifesto". Book by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, 1848.

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• Moments are the elements of profit

  Karl Marx

  Elements, Moments, Profit

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.267, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.

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  Eggs, Golden, Occult

  Karl Marx, Eden Paul (1933). “Capital”

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• I am nothing and should be everything.

  Karl Marx

  Fear, Atheism, Rage

  Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.37, Hackett Publishing

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• Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868)

  Karl Marx

  July, Practice, Connections

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• The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.

  Karl Marx

  Ideas, Development, Rupture

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.81, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.

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  Science, Technology, Funny Science

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.406, Cosimo, Inc.

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• He who before was the money owner, now strides in front as capitalist; the possessor of labor-power follows as his laborer. The one with an air of importance, smirking, intent on business; the other hesitant, like one who is bringing his own hide to market and has nothing to expect but a hiding.

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  Air, Hiding, Owners

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• Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on a mass scale is necessary, an alteration which can only take place in a practical movement, a revolution; this revolution is necessary, therefore, not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew.

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  Men, Class, Age

  Karl Marx, Frederick Engels (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.19, Haymarket Books

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• Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

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  Museums, Civilization, Dancer

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

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• Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones.

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  Agitation, Bourgeoisie, Communist Manifesto

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1973). “Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by Friedrich Engels”, p.76, University of Chicago Press

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• The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities.

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  Life, Negative, Reason

  Karl Marx (1975). “Early writings”, Vintage

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• As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

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  Life, Real, Party

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

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• The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.

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  Bourgeoisie, Needs, Communist Manifesto

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.18, BookCaps Study Guides

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• It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.

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  Tired, Fighting, Hair

  Karl Marx (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works”, International Pub

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• Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people.

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  People, Religion, Opiates

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• Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life.

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  Hair, Holy Grail, Gold

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.149, Cosimo, Inc.

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