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“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.”

Quote by Karl Marx

Book:Capital: a critique of political economy

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Capital: a critique of political economy

Karl Marx's comprehensive analysis of the capitalist mode of production, including labor, capital, and surplus value, remains a foundational text in the study of economics and social theory. more

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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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“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.”

Values Ability Money Virtue Capitalism Lays Add Golden Eggs Commodity Occult Offspring Value Of Money Golden Eggs

Author:Karl Marx

“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.”

Force Sea Tasks Missions Islands January Task Forces

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

Science Time Values Products Labor Scientist Relation Originals Productions

Author:Karl Marx

“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.”

Ideas Culture Force Class Materials Intellectual Ruling Epoch

Book:The German Ideology

Source: The German Ideology

“The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.”

Doe Together Labor Competition Workers Division Application Wages Machinery Shrinks Division Of Labor

Book:Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by Friedrich Engels

Source: Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by Friedrich Engels

“The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.”

Humans Political Politics Human Beings Animal Politician Midst Literal Gregarious Totems Political Animals

Book:Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy

Source: Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy

“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.”

Men Science Time Natural Scientist Natural Science

Book:Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works

Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works

“On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.”

Looks Simple Levels Intelligent Intellect Hills Bourgeoisie Insipid Flatness

Author:Karl Marx

“Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people by American media. We must have facts and data in order to recognize where there is a problem!”

People Two Facts Problem Order Opinion Media Data Consistently Problem Solving Cornerstones American Media

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