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Class Quotes by Karl Marx
- ...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle…
- Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up…
- The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.
- The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralisation of the state power will be useful for the centralisation of the German working…
- In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be…
- In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each…
- Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than…
- The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.
- But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.... The Communists have not invented the intervention…
- ...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…
- What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development…
- Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.
- All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital ,…
- In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.
- It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only…
- Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy.
- Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen…
- The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
- The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
- The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is…
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