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“No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.”

Quote by Karl Marx

Book:Karl Marx Frederick Engels: Collected Works 1857-61

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Karl Marx Frederick Engels: Collected Works 1857-61

The volume encompasses a range of political, economic, and philosophical essays, letters, and other texts by the two authors, offering insights into their early intellectual development and contributions to the socialist movement. 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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“The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy .”

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“A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children.”

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“Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as capital ... Thus all the physical and intellectual senses have been replaced by ... the sense of having.”

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