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Bourgeois society continuously brings forth the Jew from its own entrails.
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Every commodity is compelled to chose some other commodity for its equivalent.
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So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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The labour-power is a commodity, not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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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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Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
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If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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Religion is the opium of the masses.
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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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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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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Nor is it the irrationality of the form which is taken as characteristic. On the contrary, one overlooks the irrational.
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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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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
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When we have chosen the vocation in which we can contribute most to humanity, burdens cannot bend us because they are only sacrifices for all. Then we experience no meager, limited, egotistic joy, but our happiness belongs to millions, our deeds live on quietly but eternally effective, and glowing tears of noble men will fall on our ashes.
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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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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In a social order dominated by capitalist production even the non-capitalist producer is gripped by capitalist conceptions.
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What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.
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