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• Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

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• All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

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• What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development of production; that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; and that dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.

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• In manufacture and in handicrafts, the worker uses a tool; in the factory, he serves a machine.

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• The instruments of labour, when they assume the form of machinery, acquire a kind of material existence which involves the replacement of human forces by the forces of Nature, and of rule-of-thumb methods by the purposeful application of natural science.

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• The production of surplus-value, or the extraction of surplus labour, is the specific end and aim, the sum and substance, of capitalist production.

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• The product of mental labour—science—always stands far below its value, because the labour-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labour-time required for its original production.

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• Society does not consist of individuals; it expresses the sum of connections and relationships in which individuals find themselves.

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• All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life and degraded human life into material force.

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• Hegel says somewhere that all great events and personalities in the world reappear in one fashion or another. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

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• If capital is growing rapidly, wages may rise; the profit of capital rises incomparably more rapidly. The material position of the worker has improved, but at the cost of his social position. The social gulf that divides him from the capitalist has widened.

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• A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre; Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police spies.

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• The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

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• The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

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• The division of labour is nothing but the alienated establishment of human activity.

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• The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

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• Moments are the elements of profit.

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• As individuals express their life, so they are.

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• Religion is the opiate of the masses.

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• The philosophers have only interpreted the world. The point, however, is to change it.

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Karl Heinrich Marx (83)

Birth:	5th May, 1818
Death:	14th March, 1883
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Philosopher

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Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Marx's work in economics laid the basis for the current understanding of labour and its relation to capital, and has influenced much of subsequent economic thought. He published numerous books during his lifetime, the most notable being The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital.

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