Quotes by Karl Marx, The German Ideology

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“As individuals express their life, so they are.”

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“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. The class which h...”
— Karl Marx, The German Ideology
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“As individuals express their life, so they are.”
— Karl Marx, The German Ideology
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“Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only ar...”
— Karl Marx, The German Ideology
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“Or how does it happen that trade, which after all is nothing more than the exchange of products of various individuals and countries, rules the whole world through the relation of supply and demand...”
— Karl Marx, The German Ideology
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“The sum of productive forces, capital funds and social forms of intercourse, which every individual and generation finds in existence as something given, is the real basis of what the philosophers ...”
— Karl Marx, The German Ideology
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“Hitherto men have always formed wrong ideas about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be. They have arranged their relations according to their ideas of God, of normal man, etc. ...”
— Karl Marx, The German Ideology
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