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" If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist. "

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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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History Repeats Itself

" The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. "

" Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. "

" The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite. "

" In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. "

" Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. "

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

" The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. "

" In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. "

" Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state. "

" 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. "

" Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. "

" 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. "

" The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. "

" We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass. "

" 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. "

" Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. "

" Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers. "

" Democracy is the road to socialism. "

" For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him. "

" A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism. "

" Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains. "

" 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. "