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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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hunter, fisherman, cowherd, or critic

[...] the division of labour offers us the first example of how, as long as man remains in natural society, that is, as long as a cleavage exists between the particular and the common interest, as long, therefore, as activity is not voluntarily, but naturally, divided, man’s own deed becomes an ali…

—p.185 Karl Marx: Selected Writings The German Ideology (175) by Karl Marx
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the latent slavery in the family

[...] This latent slavery in the family, though still very crude, is the first property, but even at this early stage it corresponds perfectly to the definition of modern economists who call it the power of disposing of the labour-power of others. Division of labour and private property are, moreov…

—p.185 The German Ideology (175) by Karl Marx
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from earth to heaven

The production of ideas, of conceptions, of consciousness, is at first directly interwoven with the material activity and the material intercourse of men, the language of real life. [...]

In direct contrast to German philosophy which descends from heaven to earth, here we ascend from earth to he…

—p.180 The German Ideology (175) by Karl Marx
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the four parts to alienated labour

[...] Alienated labour had four aspects to it. First, the workers were related to the product of their labour as to an alien object; it stood over and above them, opposed to them with a power independent of the producers. Second, the workers became alienated from themselves in the very act of produ…

—p.8 The Early Writings 1837–1844 (3) by Karl Marx
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this field of nationalist passions

[...] Why then should the left leave this field of nationalist passions to the radical right [...] Could the radical left not mobilize these same nationalist passions as a mighty weapons against the dominant force in today's global society, the increasingly unfettered reign of rootless financial ca…

—p.191 The Great Regression The populist temptation (185) by Slavoj Žižek