Today is the birthday of Karl Marx one of the greatest minds who ever lived. Here is a small selection of quotes from Marx. I hope you enjoy them.
The representation of private interests … abolishes all natural and spiritual distinctions by enthroning in their stead the immoral, irrational and soulless abstraction of a particular material object and a particular consciousness which is slavishly subordinated to this object.
Marx, On the Thefts of Wood, in Rheinische Zeitung (1842)
The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.
Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (1843)
We develop new principles for the world out of the world’s own principles. We do not say to the world: Cease your struggles, they are foolish; we will give you the true slogan of struggle. We merely show the world what it is really fighting for, and consciousness is something that it has to acquire, even if it does not want to.
Marx, Letter from the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher to Ruge (1843)
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Marx, Letter from the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher to Ruge (1843)
The Autistic FellRunner 