"Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation.It has been objected, that upon the abolition of private property all work will cease, and universal laziness will overtake us.According to this, bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work."

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Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, and political theorist whose work shaped modern socialist and communist thought. Born in Trier on 1818-05-05, he wrote The Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels and later developed his critique of capitalism in Das Kapital. He died in London on 1883-03-14.

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