Karl Marx Quotes - Page 6

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• All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

  Karl Marx

  Real, Government, Political

  Attributed in a letter from Engels to C. Schmidt, 5 August 1890

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• The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

  Karl Marx

  Change, Courage, Peace

  Theses on Feuerbach no. 11 (written 1845). This is the epitaph on Marx's tombstone in Highgate Cemetery, London.

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• Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.

  Karl Marx

  Change, Lying, Communication

  Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.328, Hackett Publishing

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• Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

  Karl Marx

  Love, Philosophy, World

  "The German Ideology". Book by Karl Marx (p. 103), 1845-1846.

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• Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of the spiritless condition. It is the opium of the people.

  Karl Marx

  Religious, Real, Heart

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Collected works”

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• If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work beyond beyond the time necessary for the reproduction of his means of subsistence, say 8 hours a day.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Needs, Hours

  Karl Marx (2012). “The Essential Marx”, p.108, Courier Corporation

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• ...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.

  Karl Marx

  Communication, Agony, Way

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.298, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Men make their own history

  Karl Marx

  Men, History, Communist Manifesto

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

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• The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Evil, Alienation

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• The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

  Karl Marx

  Giving Up, Real, People

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

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• ...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.

  Karl Marx

  Communication, Winning, Class

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.82, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?

  Karl Marx

  Men, Doe, Income

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx (pp. 809 - 810), 1857-1858.

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• The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Creation Of Man, World

  Karl Marx (2012). “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”, p.113, Courier Corporation

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• Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.

  Karl Marx

  Money, Greed, Fountainhead

  Karl Marx (1973). “Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy”, Vintage Books USA

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• Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

  Karl Marx

  White, Long, Black

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• The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism

  Karl Marx

  Criticism, Criticism Of Religion

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• In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophy, Eye, Sacred

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, Joseph Stalin (1948). “Ten Classics of Marxism”

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

  Karl Marx

  Flower, Men, Agnostic

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• It's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way.

  Karl Marx

  Littles, Way, Ass

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1983). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”

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• The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

  Karl Marx

  Animal, Political, Politics

  Karl Marx (1973). “Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy”, Vintage Books USA

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• Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.

  Karl Marx

  Force, Midwife, Pregnant

  Karl Marx (2016). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume I: The Economist”, p.447, VM eBooks

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• Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

  Karl Marx

  Country, Communication, Winning

  Karl Marx (2013). “The Communist Manifesto”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of money: 1) private property for private property; 2) society for private property; 3) private property for society. But Christ is alienated God and alienated man. God has value only insofar as he represents Christ, and man has value only insofar as he represents Christ. It is the same with money.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Ideas, Christ

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Collected works”

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• Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.

  Karl Marx

  Real, Men, Doe

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.176, Cambridge University Press

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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.

  Karl Marx

  Moving, Hands, Democracy

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