communistquotes/quotes/Karl Marx/German Ideology.csv

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2	`Karl Marx`,`German Ideology (1845)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01a.htm#5a4`,`Morality, religion, metaphysics, all the rest of ideology and their corresponding forms of consciousness, thus no longer retain the semblance of independence. They have no history, no development; but men, developing their material production and their material intercourse, alter, along with this their real existence, their thinking and the products of their thinking.`
3	`Karl Marx`,`German Ideology (1845)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01a.htm#a2`,`The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature....Men can be distinguished from animals by consciousness, by religion or anything else you like. They themselves begin to distinguish themselves from animals as soon as they begin to produce their means of subsistence, a step which is conditioned by their physical organisation. By producing their means of subsistence men are indirectly producing their actual material life`
4	`Karl Marx`,`German Ideology (1845)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01a.htm#a4`,`In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.`
5	`Karl Marx`,`German Ideology (1845)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01a.htm#p48`,`Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.`
6	`Karl Marx`,`German Ideology (1845)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01a.htm#science`,`We know only a single science, the science of history. One can look at history from two sides and divide it into the history of nature and the history of men. The two sides are, however, inseparable; the history of nature and the history of men are dependent on each other so long as men exist. The history of nature, called natural science, does not concern us here; but we will have to examine the history of men, since almost the whole ideology amounts either to a distorted conception of this history or to a complete abstraction from it. Ideology is itself only one of the aspects of this history.`
7	`Karl Marx`,`German Ideology (1845)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01b.htm#5b2`,`As far as Feuerbach is a materialist he does not deal with history, and as far as he considers history he is not a materialist.`
8	`Karl Marx`,`German Ideology (1845)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01b.htm#b3`,`For each new class which puts itself in the place of one ruling before it, is compelled, merely in order to carry through its aim, to represent its interest as the common interest of all the members of society, that is, expressed in ideal form: it has to give its ideas the form of universality, and represent them as the only rational, universally valid ones.`
9	`Karl Marx`,`German Ideology (1845)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01b.htm#b3`,`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. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.`
10	`Karl Marx`,`German Ideology (1845)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01d.htm#d4`,`Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and ... the alteration of men on a mass scale is, necessary, ... a revolution; this revolution is necessary, therefore, not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew.`
11	`Karl Marx`,`German Ideology, Chapter 3 (1846)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch03p.htm#447`,`One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm.`