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• Music is the mirror of reality.

  Karl Marx

  Reality, Mirrors, Music Is

  Karl Marx, Regula Qureshi (2002). “Music and Marx: Ideas, Practice, Politics”, p.9, Psychology Press

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• Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.

  Karl Marx

  Dream, Fear, Atheism

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• The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.

  Karl Marx

  Powerful, Work, Workers

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

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• Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

  Karl Marx

  Time, Art, Secret

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• The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got

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  Country, Men, Working Man

  Karl Marx, Saul Kussiel Padover (1972). “The Karl Marx Library: On revolution”, McGraw-Hill, [1972-77

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• The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalised the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production.

  Karl Marx

  Hunting, Discovery, America

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.823, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Spare Time, Mass

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.581, Cosimo, Inc.

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• One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.

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  Tasks, World, Philosopher

  Karl Marx (1976). “The German Ideology: Including Theses on Feuerbach and Introduction to The Critique of Political Economy”, Pyr Books

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• No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.

  Karl Marx

  Needs, Consumption, Productions

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1987). “Karl Marx Frederick Engels: Collected Works 1857-61”, International Pub

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• The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.

  Karl Marx

  Work, Workers, Objects

  "Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts". Book by Karl Marx, "Alienated Labor" (p. 134), 1844.

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• If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.

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  Capitalist, Labourers, Ifs

  Source: thecorporateasylum.com

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• Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to enslave others by means of such appropriations.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Men, Fruit

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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

  Class, Ideas, Intellectual

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1970). “The German Ideology”, p.64, INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO

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

  Karl Marx

  Cheating, War, Franklin

  Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling, Friedrich Engels (2011). “Capital, Volume I: A Critique of Political Economy”, p.182, Courier Corporation

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• But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense, the more dogmatically they are asserted and the more deceitful, moralizing and spiritual becomes the language of established society.

  Karl Marx

  Spiritual, Class, Common Sense

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• Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.

  Karl Marx

  Real, Movement, Affair

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.182, Cambridge University Press

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• There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.

  Karl Marx

  Suicide, Pain, Self Harm

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1993). “Collected Works: Marx and Engels, 1880-83”, International Pub

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• The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.

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  Past, Superstitions, Revolution

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• What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.

  Karl Marx

  Fall, Victory, Bourgeoisie

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.837, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Long, Doe

  Karl Marx (2001). “Marxism, Socialism and Religion”, p.20, Resistance Books

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• The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs.

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  Spring, People, Sound

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• Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

  Karl Marx

  Historical, Tragedy, Farce

  Karl Marx (1935). “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”, New York : International publishers

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• Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses

  Karl Marx

  Data, Junk, Empty

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• Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore violates the conditions necessary to lasting fertility of the soil. By this action it destroys at the same time the health of the town labourer and the intellectual life of the rural labourer.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Intellectual, Fertility

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)”, p.1529, Delphi Classics

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

  Karl Marx

  Christian, Giving, Asceticism

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.94, BookCaps Study Guides

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