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But it is equally possible to follow this link in another direction, taking real life as the point of departure in an investigation of how the ideas which express it and the forms of consciousness which reflect it emerge.

— Henri Lefebvre

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Everything great and splendid is founded on power and wealth.

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It is through knowledge that the proletarian liberates himself and begins actively superseding his condition.

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The method of Marx and Engels consists precisely in a search for the link which exists between what men think, desire, say and believe for themselves and what they are, what they do.

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