The Most Popular Karl Marx Quotes of All Time

by Jimmy September 3, 2022, 2:08 pm

Most Popular Karl Marx Quotes of All Time. (See the search results for ‘all time’ on Rankito).

Karl Marx was a pivotal thinker and philosopher of the 19th century. He had his own set of beliefs, philosophies and ideologies that were supposed to be put into practice with society.

Karl Marx is best known for his most popular quotes which have shaped the world as it exists today. Unlike Karl Marx, these quotes are not about Karl Marx. They are about the people who influenced him in some way or the other, like Friedrich Engels or Christian Wolff among others.

Karl Marx is a revolutionary who profoundly influenced the socialist and communist movements in the late 1800s. (Visit Amazon to Buy Books about Karl Marx).

Karl Marx, one of the most influential people in history, has left behind many quotes that are still remembered today. We have compiled a list of 15 of his most popular quotes to share with you.

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#1 “The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.”

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

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#3 “History does nothing, it ‘possesses no immense wealth’, it ‘wages no battles’. It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses and fights; ‘history’ is not, as it were, a person apart, using man as a means to achieve its own aims; history is nothing but the activity of man pursuing his aims.”

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#4 “Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.”

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#5 “The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.”

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#6 “Democracy is the road to socialism.”

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#7 “The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.”

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#8 “To be radical is to grasp things by the root.”

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#9 “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”

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#10 “If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.”

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#11 “Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.”

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#12 “All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.”

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

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#14 “The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”

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#15 “Revolutions are the locomotives of history.”

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