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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. – Karl Marx

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Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. – Karl Marx

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History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. – Karl Marx

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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends. – Karl Marx

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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. – Sydney J. Harris

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