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Karl Marx Biography

Karl Marx (German: [ˈkaɐ̯l ˈmaɐ̯ks]; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist.

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The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.

Chains, Proletarians, Uniting, Win, Winning, World

The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races.

Jew, Jews, Poland, Race, Races

The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.

Circulation, Commodities, Commodity, Original, Originals

England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia. . . When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch. . . and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain.

Bourgeois, Cease, Idols, Peoples, Progress, Skulls

The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.

Powerful, Powerless, Work, Worker, Workers

The social revolution. . . cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.

Concerning, Past, Revolution, Stripped, Superstitions

Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.

Dog, Gone, Long Ago, Members, Ought, Work

Labour is. . . not the only source of material wealth, i. e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother.

Earth, Father, Mother, Produces, Says, Use

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

Give, Giving Up, People, Real, Tears

No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.

Bourgeoisie, Cash, Labourer, Landlord, Wages

In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off.

Honesty, Men, Past, Against, Agents, Dint

The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker.

Misshapen, Product, Products, Shaped, Work, Workers

The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer.

Accumulation, Capitalist, Expropriation, Fundamentals, Mode, Self

All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

Real, Government, Political, Marxist, Know

These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time.

Capacity, Deprive, Individual, Money, Obstacles, Withdrawn

So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.

Capitalist, Long, Producer, Producers, Product, Sold

There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.

Arms, Circumstances, Give, Giving Up, Possession, Victory

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Atheist, Deal, Deals, Mind, Understand

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.

Bourgeoisie, Communist Manifesto, Constantly, Instruments, Whole

Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same.

Arise, Doe, Naturally, Product, States

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