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• By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of the private capitalists and usurers. But at the same time, banking and credit become the most effective means of driving captialist production beyond its own limits and one of the most effective vehicles of crises and swindle.

  Karl Marx

  Taken, Mean, Hands

  Karl Marx (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Karl Marx: Capital, Vol. 3”, International Pub

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• And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives, at the head of the counter-revolution -- what awaits them?

  Karl Marx

  Revolution, Jew, Emancipation

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

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• Religion is the opiate of the people.

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  Religious, People, Religion

  "Marx is dead: don't resuscitate him" by Linsey McGoey, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2008.

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• From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again.

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  Christian, Judaism, Jew

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

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• The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews, and what is more, a wonderful means whereby out of money to make more money.

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  Mean, Smell, Looks

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.89, Cambridge University Press

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• Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

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  Life, Determined, Consciousness

  Erich Fromm, Karl Marx (2013). “Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'”, p.162, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

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  Passion, Mean, Violent

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.455, Oxford University Press, USA

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• An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.

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  Mean, Increase, Labour

  Karl Marx (2005). “Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy”, Penguin UK

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• One capitalist always kills many.

  Karl Marx

  Capitalist

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.836, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.

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  Mean, Long, Coins

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.145, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The religious world is but a reflex of the real world.

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  Religious, Real, World

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.71, Cambridge University Press

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• Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.

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  Substance, Wealth, Form

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, Notebook II, The Chapter on Money, p. 141, 1857-1858.

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• The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself.

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  Mind, Unhappy, Energy

  Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). “German socialist philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

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  Science, Everyday, Appearance

  Karl Marx, Hugh Griffith, F. Engels (2009). “Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels”, p.105, Collector's Library

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• What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist. This is so much the case that I do not know whether by the English Law, but certainly by some Continental Laws, the maximum time is fixed for which a man is allowed to sell his laboring power. If allowed to do so for any indefinite period whatever, slavery would be immediately restored. Such a sale, if it comprised his lifetime, for example, would make him at once the lifelong slave of his employer.

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  Work, Men, Law

  Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). “German socialist philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity .

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  Doe, Economic, Concepts

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, Notebook VII, The Chapter on Capital, p. 696, 1857-1858.

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• When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.

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  Individuality, Capability, Labourers

  Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling, Friedrich Engels (2011). “Capital, Volume I: A Critique of Political Economy”, p.361, Courier Corporation

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• In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed - a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.

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  Class, Long, Competition

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.251, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin.

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  Suffering, Skins, Looks

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• Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

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  Men, Restoration, World

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Robert C. Tucker (1972). “The Marx-Engels reader”

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• Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.

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  Reality, Expression, Form

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, 1857-1858.

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• A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production.

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  Greatness, Relative Value, Substance

  Karl Marx (1913). “Value, Price and Profit”

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• Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophy, World, Study

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• The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.

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  Ends, Motive, Aim

  Karl Marx (2012). “Das Kapital: A Critique of Political Economy”, p.178, Regnery Publishing

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• The weapon of criticism can never replace the criticism of weapons.

  Karl Marx

  Criticism, Weapons

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