Karl Marx Quotes

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

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

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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

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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.

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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

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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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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

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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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In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser

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Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

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