German - Philosopher | May 5, 1818 - March 14, 1883
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
Karl Marx
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
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There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
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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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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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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
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