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01c. 1850 AD

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

Karl Marx / quote

02c. 1850 AD

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Karl Marx / quote

03c. 1850 AD

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Karl Marx / quote

04c. 1850 AD

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

Karl Marx / quote

05c. 1850 AD

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Karl Marx / quote

06c. 1850 AD

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Karl Marx / quote