Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

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Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

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Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

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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 this.

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In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

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Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

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The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

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

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