"The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles."
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"Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of money: 1) private property for private property; 2) society for private property; 3) private property for society. But Christ is alienated God and alienated man. God has value only insofar as he represents Christ, and man has value only insofar as he represents Christ. It is the same with money."
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"Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the conflict between existence and essence, objectification and self-affirmation, freedom and necessity, individual and species. It is the riddle of history solved and knows itself as the solution."
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"Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded."
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"The wealthy man is the man whois much, not the one who has much"
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"Misery motivates, not utopia."
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"The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."
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"Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary."
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"The state is the executive committee of the ruling class."
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"Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary."
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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."
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"There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain."
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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."
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"The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living."
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"The past lies like a nightmare upon the present."
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"If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work beyond beyond the time necessary for the reproduction of his means of subsistence, say 8 hours a day."
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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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"Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it"
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"The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society."
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"There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms."
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