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“Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.”

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Karl Marx (May 5, 1818 - March 14, 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, political theorist, and revolutionary. He is one of the founders of Marxism and his works, including 'Das Kapital' and 'The Communist Manifesto', have had a profound impact on the world. more

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

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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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“The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.”

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Book:The Communist Manifesto (Diversion Classics)

Source: The Communist Manifesto (Diversion Classics)

“The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.”

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Book:Collected Works

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

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Book:Capital, Volume I: A Critique of Political Economy

Source: Capital, Volume I: A Critique of Political Economy

“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.”

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Book:Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Marx and Engels: 1845-48

Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Marx and Engels: 1845-48

“It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.”

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Author:Karl Marx

“The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.”

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Book:Capital: a critique of political economy

Source: Capital: a critique of political economy

“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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“Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.”

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