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Karl Marx

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.


— Karl Marx


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The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.


— Karl Marx


#change #ideology #philosophy #resistance #struggle

Religion is the opiate of the masses.


— Karl Marx


#philosophical #religion #religion

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.


— Karl Marx


#first #history #history repeats itself #itself #repeats

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


— Karl Marx


#people #production #results #things #too

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.


— Karl Marx


#each #his #needs

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!


— Karl Marx


#proletariat #men

The way people get their living determines their social outlook.


— Karl Marx


#communism #marxism #social #socialism #communism

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.


— Karl Marx


#men

They don't know it, but they are doing it.


— Karl Marx


#philosophy #ideology






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Did you know about Karl Marx?

Accordingly the newspaper was popular with the broad masses of the common working class of the United States. At the same time Marx stressed that capitalism was unstable and prone to periodic crises. No longer a secret society the Communist League wanted to make aims and intentions clear to the general public rather than hiding its beliefs as the League of the Just had been doing.

Marx is typically cited with Émile Durkheim and Max Weber as one of the three principal architects of modern social science. He argued that under socialism society would be governed by the working class in what he called the "dictatorship of the proletariat" the "workers' state" or "workers' democracy". His ideas played a significant role in the establishment of the social sciences and the development of the socialist movement.

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