Mens ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state. – Karl Marx
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. – Karl Marx

Mens ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state. – Karl Marx
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. – Karl Marx
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. – Karl Marx
Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents. – Karl Marx