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Religion is the opium of the people.

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Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but s...more

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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

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The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, i.e. is compelled by social conditions, to sell the whole of his act...more

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Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren't his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he's lucky, he might get pai...more

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Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

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Religion is the opiate of the people.

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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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In reality, the laborer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital. His economic bondage is both brought about and concealed by the peri...more

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Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man.Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of ...more

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The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himse...more

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But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and push...more

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The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.

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The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the ...more

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The bourgeois during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding genera...more