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“Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of the conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class made into a law for all, a will, whose essential character and direction are determined by the economical conditions of existence of your class.”

“All the preceding classes that got the upper hand, sought to fortify their already acquired status by subjecting society at large to their conditions of appropriation. The proletarians cannot become masters of the productive forces of society, except by abolishing their own previous mode of appropriation, and thereby also every other previous mode of appropriation”

“At this stage, therefore, the proletarians do not fight their enemies, but the enemies of their enemies.”

“Bourgeois compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilization into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world after its own image.”

“from the numerous national and
local literatures, there arises a world literature.”

“In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat (developed)—a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. (Who) must sell themselves… are a commodity, like every other article of commerce… He becomes an appendage of the machine.”

“Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.”

“The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers.”

kinda fire so far, haven’t gotten much of Marx yet but he seems annoying and stubborn sooo not sure he’s my type of vibe 😬🫩