"The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it."
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"In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded."
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"Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes."
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"Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs."
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"The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty."
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"Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human."
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"All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy"
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"It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves."
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"But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything."
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"The way people get their living determines their social outlook."
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"If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist."
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"In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic."
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"So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development in which the Jews have zealously co-operated. And this evil anti-social aspect of Jewry has grown to a stage at which: it must necessarily collapse."
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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."
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"Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor."
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"The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!"
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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."
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"Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same."
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"All I know is I'm not a Marxist."
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"Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but deformity for the worker. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back to barbaric labor, and it turns the remainder into machines."
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