"A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains."
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"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce."
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"The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule."
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"Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes."
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"Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity."
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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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"...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy."
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"The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object."
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"Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time."
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"Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God."
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"Ideas do not exist separately from language."
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"Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The increase in the quantity of objects is therefore accompanied by an extension of the realm of the alien powers to which man is subjected, and every new product represents a new potentiality of mutual swindling and mutual plundering."
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"Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital , in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit ."
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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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"An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object."
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"The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together."
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"The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production."
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"In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole."
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"To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire."
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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."
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