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This much is certain, the ERA OF REVOLUTION has now FAIRLY OPENED IN EUROPE once more. And the general state of affairs is good.

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Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.

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The circulation of capital realizes value, while living labour creates value.

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History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.

The Holy Family (1845)

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

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

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Men do not lead the revolution; it is the Revolution that uses men.

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The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

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