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The Velvet Underground

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“Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriations.”

— Marx and Engels - Communist Manifesto 1848

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“Private property is the product, the result, the necessary consequence, of alienated labor”

— Marx - Estranged Labour 1844

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“Private property is the product, the result, the necessary consequence, of alienated labor”

— Marx - Estranged Labour 1844

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“culture… is, for the enormous majority, a mere training to act as a machine.”

— Marx and Engels - Communist Manifesto 1848

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“Capitalist production is not merely the production of commodities, it is essentially the production of surplus-value. The labourer produces, not for himself, but for capital. It no longer suffices, therefore, that he should simply produce. He must produce surplus-value.”

— Marx - Capital Vol 1 Ch.16

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“By selling his labour to the capitalist, the worker obtains a right only to the price of labour, not to the product of his labour, nor to the value which his labour has added to it.”

— Marx - Grundrisse 1857

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"In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables. Sex between people and things, human beings and pieces of paper, real men and unreal women, will be a turn-off. Artifacts of these abuses will reside in a glass case next to the dinosaur skeletons in the Smithsonian. When this day comes, silence will be neither an act of power, as it is now for those who hide behind it, nor an experience of imposed powerlessness, as it is now for those who are submerged in it, but a context of repose into which thought can expand, an invitation that gives speech its shape, an opening to a new conversation."

Catharine MacKinnon, Only Words, 1993

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"We understand thought (thinking) as the ideal component of the real activity of social people transforming both external nature and themselves by their labour."

Evald Ilyenkov, Dialectical Logic, 1974

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“Capital is nothing without labour, without movement.”

— Marx, 1844

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“Nature does not produce on the one side owners of money or commodities, and on the other men possessing nothing but their own labour-power. This relation has no natural basis, neither is its social basis one that is common to all historical periods.”

— Karl Marx, Capital, 1867

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Proletarian revolutions constantly criticise themselves, continually interrupt themselves in the course of their own development, come back to the seemingly complete in order to start it all over again, treat the inadequacies of their own first attempts with cruelly radical contempt, seem only to throw their adversaries down to enable them to draw new strength from the earth and rise up again to face them all the more gigantic.

Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, 1852

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“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.”

— Marx, 1852