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Marx made theory... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization... And Henry ...

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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.

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Eric HofferThe True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.

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Friedrich EngelsCollected Works 38 1844-51

The only real laughter comes from despair.

One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the ...

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The intentions of the cybernetic totalist tribe are good. They are simply following a path that was ...

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

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.

Men [sic] make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under ...

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Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

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Karl MarxDas Kapital/Das kommunistische Manifest

Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various way; the point, however, is to change it

Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change i...

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

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the rulin...

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This false appearance distinguishes wages labour from other historical forms of labour. On the basis...

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The values of commodities are directly as the times of labour employed in their production, and are ...

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As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and persona...

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If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be w...

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You see, the bodily resurrection of Jesus isn't a take-it-or-leave-it thing, as though some Christia...

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N.T. WrightFor All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church

Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!"-aft...

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Marx wrote about finance and industry all his life but he only knew two people connected with financ...

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Georgi M. Derluguian's Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus tells the extraordinary story of Mu...

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In this way the world market is, with regard to its immanent dynamic, 'a space in which everyone has...

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Recall Marx’s fundamental insight about the “bourgeois” limitation of the logic of equality: capital...

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I'd be willing to bet that the notion of the end of time is more common today in the secular world t...

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It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be...

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Conquest occurred through violence, and over-expolitation and oppression necessitate continued viole...

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Albert MemmiThe Colonizer and the Colonized

I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e...

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I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e...

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One of the curious things about our educational system, I would note, is that the better trained you...

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This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of natu...

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Failure to recognize the historical specificity of the bourgeois conception of rights and duties lea...

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Barriers to accumulation are perpetually dissolving and re-forming around the issue of so-called nat...

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David HarveyThe Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism