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"The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, i.e. is compelled by social conditions, to sell the whole of his active life, his birthright for a mass of pottage."
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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."
"Retirement is a stage where an employer discards an employee that he cannot exploit further."
"It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation."
"Generational oppression begins when what is meant to be transferred to one offspring has been taken over by reason of oppression."
"Some selfish people rise because some kind people haven't learned the art of saying no to them."
"Look at the stupid, poor people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people, look at their dead baby. It's death porn for the masses."
"We fight exploitation of man by man in words but live it in daily life."
"Loan sharking may mean investment and immediate solutions but desperate loan sharks, who are short of cash, abuse your rights and attack other people's home."
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"Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible."
"Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending."
"In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality."
"Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society."
"The introduction of free competition is thus public declaration that from now on the members of society are unequal only to the extent that their capitals are unequal, that capital is the decisive power, and that therefore the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, have become the first class in society."
"Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!"
"Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it."
"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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