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[representative government is] deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to misrepresent the people in Parliament,

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All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

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If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right...more

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No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind

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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of...more

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Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

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And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society and to impose its conditions of existence upon ...more

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Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps

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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster a...more

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Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.Workingme...more

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When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of...more

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...it happens that "society is saved" as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts itself ove...more