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== Karl Marx ==
 
Karl Heinrich Marx was born 5 May 1818 and died  14 March 1883. He was a German philosopher, critic of political economy, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and [[socialist]] revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The [[Communist Manifesto]] and the three-volume Das Kapital (1867–1883). Marx's political and philosophical thought had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic, and political history. 

He married German theatre critic and political activist Jenny von Westphalen in 1843. Due to his political publications, Marx became stateless and lived in exile with his wife and children in London for decades, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and publish his writings, researching in the British Museum Reading Room.


Recently, historian and Congressman Ron Paul said, ''“Our country’s founders cherished liberty, not democracy.”'' In the other hand [[Karl Marx]], who was an advocate of communism, supposedly claimed, 'Democracy is the road to [[socialism]].'<Ref>[http://www.spectrezine.org/%E2%80%9Cdemocracy-road-socialism%E2%80%9D-oration-karl-marxs-grave.html “Democracy is the road to socialism” Oration at Karl Marx's grave] "As Marx said: “Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the labourer, unless under compulsion from society” – by which, I believe, he meant the state.   He also said: “[[Democracy]] is the road to [[socialism]]”.  The battle for democracy is yet to be won, but the army of labour is crying out for the battle to be rejoined."   Alex Gordon is President of Maritime & Transport Workers (UK )]</Ref>

People had continued to play with good and bad ideas. By 1831, William Lloyd Garrison was publishing ''The Liberator'' an abolitionist newspaper employing  [[Karl Marx]] as his European correspondent.   



'From the days of Sparticus, Wieskhopf, Karl Marx, Trotsky, Rosa Luxemberg, and Emma Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.' <Br>
Winston Churchill, stated to the London Press, in 1922


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== MARXIST IDEAS ==

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'''The Communist Manifesto states the revolutionary aims of communism and maintains that [[capitalism]] must inevitably be destroyed. ''Das Kapital'' is Marx's analysis of the means of destruction.''' 
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''Was Marx biased in his analysis?''

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'''Capitalism: A socio-economic system based especially on private ownership of the means of production and the exploitation of the labor force.''' 
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''The "base" of every definition of capitalism is "private ownership" of the "means of production" which is the "private labor of the individual".''

While the exploitation of labor may occur it is not inevitable. Since "private ownership" is a base element of capitalism in an economic approach it is the socio-elements that form a system around the base of that "private ownership of individual labor and the fruit of that labor".

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[[Primitive Communism]]: "the ancient communal and State ownership which proceeds especially from the union of several tribes into a city by agreement or by conquest." 
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[[Karl Marx]]'s bitterness lead him to write, 

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"Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks." 
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"With the development of private property, we find here for the first time the same conditions which we shall find again, only on a more extensive scale, with modern private property. On the one hand, the concentration of private property...; on the other hand, coupled with this, the transformation of the plebeian small peasantry into a proletariat"
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[[capitalism]]: because of the eventual growth of commerce (and of human populations), feudal society began to accumulate capital, which, along with the increased debt incurred by the aristocracy, eventually led to the English Revolution of 1640 and the French Revolution of 1789, both of which opened the way for the establishment of a society structured around commodities and profit (i.e. capitalism). In such a society, the proletariat is fooled into believing that s/he is free because s/he is paid for his/her labor. In fact, the transformation of labor into an abstract quantity that can be bought and sold on the market leads to the exploitation of the proletariat, benefitting a small percentage of the population in control of capital. The working class thus experiences alienation since the members of this class feel they are not in control of the forces driving them into a given job. The reason for this situation is that someone else owns the means of production, which are treated like private property.
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== MARXIST QUOTES ==

“Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.”

“Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.”

“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”

“Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.”

“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.”

“The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.”

“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.”

“We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.”

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”

“While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.”

“Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.”

“The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.”

“The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.”

“The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”

“Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list – the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.”

“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.”

“It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.”

“Men make their own history.”

Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.

“[[Religion]] is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”

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'''"This [[Bible]] is for the Government of the People, by the People, and for the People."''' is attributed to the '''General Prologue to the [[John Wycliffe]] Bible translation of 1384''', as quoted in Lincoln at Gettysburg : An Address (1906) by Clark Ezra Carr, p. 75. [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Wycliffe]




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[[File:question.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Can you answer [[Some Questions|some questions]] in the context of their use in history and the [[Bible]]?]]

Those people who seek the ways of [[communism]] which compels the redistribution of wealth have already rejected [[The Way]] of [[Christ]] and [[Moses]] which was the redistribution of wealth by charity and [[freewill offerings]] under the [[perfect law of liberty]].

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== Vladimir Lenin ==

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician. 

He promised them lots of things that they wanted - his slogan was peace, bread and land. This promise made him very popular.


Bolshevism (from Bolshevik) is a revolutionary socialist current of Soviet Marxist-Leninist political thought and political regime associated with the formation of a rigidly centralized, cohesive and disciplined party of social revolution, focused on overthrowing the existing capitalist state system, seizing power

Lenin's administration redistributed land among the peasantry and nationalised banks and large-scale industry. It withdrew from the First World War by signing a treaty conceding territory to the Central Powers, and promoted world revolution through the Communist International. Opponents were suppressed in the Red Terror, a violent campaign administered by the state security services; tens of thousands were killed or interned in concentration camps. 

Meanwhile, Lenin's critics accuse him of establishing a totalitarian dictatorship which oversaw mass killings and political repression. Lenin endorsed the violent actions of others and exhibited no remorse for those killed for the revolutionary cause.


== What Lenin said ==


“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
― Vladimir Lenin


“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.”
― Vladimir Lenin

“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
― Vladimir Lenin

“Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.”
― Vladimir Lenin

“Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.”
― Vladimir Lenin


“Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.”
― Vladimir Lenin


“Sometimes - history needs a push.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, The State and Revolution


“The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.”
― Lenin

“The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”
― Vladimir Ilich Lenin

“Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.”
― Vladimir Lenin

“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“Every society is three meals away from chaos”
― Vladimir Lenin

“When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.”
― Vladimir Lenin

“While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.”
― Vladimir Lenin, Estado y revolución


“Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid nice things and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.”
― Vladimir Lenin

“The goal of Socialism is Communism.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it. ”
― V. I. Lenin

“We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon incomprehension of the tasks of the proletarian dictatorship, are totally alien to Marxism, and, as a matter of fact, serve only to postpone the socialist revolution until people are different. No, we want the socialist revolution with people as they are now, with people who cannot dispense with subordination, control, and "foremen and accountants".”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, The State and Revolution


“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin


“There are no morals in politics; the is only experience. A scoundrel may be of use because he is a scoundrel”
― Vladimir Lenin

“Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.”
― Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich



“All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop, the greater is the concentration of production and capital which gives rise to monopoly?”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism: a popular outline

“Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin


“The intellectual forces of the workers and peasants are growing and getting stronger in their fight to overthrow the bourgeoisie and their accomplices, the educated classes, the lackeys of capital, who consider themselves the brains of the nation. In fact they are not its brains but its shit.”
― Vladimir Lenin, The Letters Of Lenin


“Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'.”
― Vladimir I lenin

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