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Karl Marx argues that social conditions shape what people think, not the other way around. He critiques how money turns values into commodities and calls for a system that resolves human and natural conflicts. He also notes that people see themselves reflected in everything around them.

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Men make their own history

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Man makes religion, religion does not make man

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Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

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The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.

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A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

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The wealthy man is the man whois much, not the one who has much

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

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The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

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The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry

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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…

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Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.

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It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful…

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Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and…

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Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.

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The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.

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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all…

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If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not…

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Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances…

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Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own…

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Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution…

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The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible…

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All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated…

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Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing;…

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Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does…

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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…

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[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on…

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The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole --…

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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…

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Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration…

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In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of…

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Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is…

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What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over…

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Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.

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The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got

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Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

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The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is…

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Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in…

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As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the…

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