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A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1844)A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859)Address of the General Council of the International Working Men's Association on "The Civil War in France" (1871), repr. in Selected Works, vol. 2, (1942)Address of the General Council of the International Working Men's Association on "The Civil War in France" (1871)"Alienated Labor" Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (1844)

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Constant revolutionizing of production ... distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. 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.

Karl Marx

Karl Marx (1818–1883), German social philosopher, revolutionary, and Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), German social philosopher, revolutionary. The Communist Manifesto, sect. 1 (1848).

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