“It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.”
― A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
― A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
“The impossible is the least that one can demand.”
― The Fire Next Time: Mcdougal Littell Literature Connections
― The Fire Next Time: Mcdougal Littell Literature Connections
“It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”
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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 has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.”
― The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
― The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
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