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Living Quotes by Karl Marx
- The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.
- Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
- History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
- In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
- Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings…
- Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves,…
- The way people get their living determines their social outlook.
- 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…
- The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.
- History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is…
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