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There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.
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The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.
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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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Prometheus ist der vornehmste Heilige und Märtyrer im philosophischen Kalender.
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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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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
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If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.
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The object before us, to begin with, material production.
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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
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A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children.
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Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
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It is in this sense that Franklin says, 'war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.'
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Only that position can impart dignity in which we do not appear as servile tools but rather create independently within our circle.
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Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
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Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.
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It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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The criticism of religion ends with the doctrine that man is the supreme being for man. It ends, therefore, with the categorical imperative to overthrow all those conditions in which man is an abased, enslaved, abandoned, contemptible being.
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
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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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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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Unlimited exploitation of cheap labour-power is the sole foundation of their power to compete.
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
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Money is a crystal formed of necessity in the course of the exchanges, whereby different products of labour are practically equated to one another and thus by practice converted into commodities.
Karl Marx