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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

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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 dead labor that vampirelike lives only by sucking living labor and lives the more the more labor it suck.

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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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Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

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Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, de...more

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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 ...more

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Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be me...more

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Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal ...more

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Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

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Everyone should be able to attend to his religious as well as his bodily needs without the police sticking their nose in.

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In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesi...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