Top 10 Quotes from Karl Marx

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“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”— Theses on Feuerbach (1845)

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“Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains.”— The Communist Manifesto (1848)

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“Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.”— Capital, Volume I (1867)

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“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”— The Communist Manifesto (1848)

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“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas.”— The German Ideology (1846)

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“Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole.”— Capital, Volume I (1867)

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“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.”— The Class Struggles in France (1850)

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“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”— A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (1843)

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“The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.”— The Communist Manifesto (1848)

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“The emancipation of the working class must be the act of the working class itself.”— Rules of the First International (1864)