"Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it."
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"As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone ."
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"Revolutions are the locomotives of history."
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"Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother."
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"Religion is the opiate of the people."
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"Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand."
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"The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains."
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"It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only momentarily, and at that always only as the harbinger of a coming crisis."
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"We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us."
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"Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state."
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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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"Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!"
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"In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be put an end to. In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end."
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"Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that."
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"Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one."
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"Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge."
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"Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver."
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"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy."
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"The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is a sovereign being. This is the illusion, dream, and postulate of Christianity."
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"There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience."
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