German - Philosopher | May 5, 1818 - March 14, 1883
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.
Karl Marx
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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
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A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
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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 writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
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Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
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It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
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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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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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