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"That culture, the loss of which he laments, is, for the enormous majority, a mere training to act as a machine."

"The aristocracy, in order to rally the people to them, waved the proletarian alms-bag in front for a banner. But the people, so often as it joined them, saw on their hindquarters the old feudal coats of arms, and deserted with loud and irreverent laughter."

"Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past."

"Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself."

"The object of art — like every other product — creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty."

"The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself."

"Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests."

"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."

“It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.”

"He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him."

"But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply themselves to everything."

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

xoxo ~*karl*~

“Philosophers have tried to describe the world -- the point is to change it.” 

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