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If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work beyond beyond the time necessary for the reproduction of his means of subsistence, say 8

If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work beyond beyond the time necessary for the reproduction of his means of subsistence, say 8 hours a day.

Mean, Needs, Hours

Karl Marx (2012). “The Essential Marx”, p.108, Courier Corporation

The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.

Powerful, Work, Workers

Karl Marx, Eugene Kamenka (1983). “The Portable Karl Marx”, Viking Adult

All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

Real, Government, Political

Attributed in a letter from Engels to C. Schmidt, 5 August 1890

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

Country, Men, Working Man

Karl Marx, Saul Kussiel Padover (1972). “The Karl Marx Library: On revolution”, McGraw-Hill, [1972-77

Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.

Class, Oppression, Antagonism

Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.234, Cambridge University Press

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

Men, Evil, Alienation

Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of the spiritless condition. It is the opium of the people.

Religious, Real, Heart

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Collected works”

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

White, Long, Black

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

Generations, Nightmare, Tradition

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

Change, Courage, Peace

Theses on Feuerbach no. 11 (written 1845). This is the epitaph on Marx's tombstone in Highgate Cemetery, London.

Men make their own history

Men, History, Communist Manifesto

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon pt. 1 (1852)

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.

Force, Midwife, Pregnant

Karl Marx (2016). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume I: The Economist”, p.447, VM eBooks

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

Flower, Men, Agnostic

You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.

Hands, Majority, Population

Karl Marx (1950). “Communist Manifesto: The revolutionary text that changed the course of history”, p.1839, Harriman House Limited

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Time, Art, Secret

Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.

Change, Lying, Communication

Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.328, Hackett Publishing

Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.

Money, Greed, Fountainhead

Karl Marx (1973). “Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy”, Vintage Books USA

Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.

Real, Men, Doe

Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.176, Cambridge University Press

The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.

Work, Workers, Objects

"Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts". Book by Karl Marx, "Alienated Labor" (p. 134), 1844.

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

Philosophy, Eye, Sacred

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, Joseph Stalin (1948). “Ten Classics of Marxism”

If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.

Capitalist, Labourers, Ifs

Source: thecorporateasylum.com

Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses

Data, Junk, Empty

The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism

Criticism, Criticism Of Religion

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

Animal, Men, Delight

Karl Marx (1932). “Capital: The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings”

The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

Past, History, Brain

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