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• What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development of production; that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; and that dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.

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  Struggle, Class, Historical

  Karl Marx (2008). “The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”, p.139, Wildside Press LLC

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• Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God.

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  Existence, Existence Of God, Materials

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.167, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.

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  Class, Earthquakes, Race

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1962). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels on Britain”

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• The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer.

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  Self, Fundamentals, Accumulation

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.848, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

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  Generations, Nightmare, Tradition

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• The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

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  Bourgeoisie, Common, Affair

  Karl Marx, Frederick Engels (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.145, Haymarket Books

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• Ideas do not exist separately from language.

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  Ideas, Language

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy in pursuit of criminal designs, playing upon national prejudices, and squandering in piratical wars the people's blood and treasure? It was not the wisdom of the ruling classes, but the heroic resistance to their criminal folly by the working classes of England, that saved the west of Europe from plunging headlong into an infamous crusade for the propagation of slavery on the other side of the Atlantic.

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  War, Blood, Europe

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.581, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.

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  Kings, Church, Helping

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• We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

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  Time, Men, Hours

  Karl Marx (1976). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Marx and Engels: 1845-48”

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• It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.

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  Religious, Water, Political

  Karl Marx (2018). “The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings: & Selected Writings”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

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  Inspirational, Real, Fighting

  David McLellan, Karl Marx (1972). “The thought of Karl Marx: an introduction”

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• The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.

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  Men, Class, Able

  Karl Marx (2016). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume III: The Economist”, p.637, VM eBooks

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• Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The increase in the quantity of objects is therefore accompanied by an extension of the realm of the alien powers to which man is subjected, and every new product represents a new potentiality of mutual swindling and mutual plundering.

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  Selfish, Power, Men

  Karl Marx (2012). “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy .

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  Gambling, Debt, Joints

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.827, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper, etc.

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  Russia, Race, Names

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1987). “Marx and Engels: 1864-68”, International Pub

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• Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.

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  Animal, Men, Delight

  Karl Marx (1932). “Capital: The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings”

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• Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

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  Life, Happiness, Philosophical

  Karl Marx, Loyd David Easton, Kurt H. Guddat (1997). “Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society”, p.39, Hackett Publishing

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• The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.

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  Style, Rifles, Citizens

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)”, p.632, Delphi Classics

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• The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.

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  Love, Needs, Communist

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1988). “The Communist Manifesto”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy.

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  Mean, Hands, Class

  Karl Marx (1974). “Capital: The process of circulation of capital”

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• When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.

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  Plunder, Position, Ascendancy

  Karl Marx (1932). “Capital: The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings”

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• The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it. Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with there capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated.

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  Mean, Sprung Up, Sound

  Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.29, OUP Oxford

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• Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.

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  Gold, Buying Gold, Silver

  Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.126, OUP Oxford

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• Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.

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  Cracks, Authority, Crisis

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