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Karl Marx

1818–1883 · 19th-century (German)

The critic of capital who tied ideas to material and historical conditions.

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Die Philosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden interpretiert; es kömmt darauf an, sie zu verändern

Original (German)

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

Theses on Feuerbach, XI (1845)

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