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  • ] Karl Marx.†   (source)
  • — nevertheless the disheveled old mystic of Das Kapital, turgid, tortured, confused, and neurotic, unscientific, illogical, this pompous fraud Karl Marx, nevertheless had a glimmering of a very important truth.†   (source)
  • He spent hours waiting on Marguerite Benson--taking her shopping or off to movies he himself couldn't stand, talking with her politely about Thorstein Veblen and Bertrand Russell and Karl Marx (her false teeth clicking all the while she talked), swivving her night after night with a look of wild rapture on his face and a prayer that it soon be over in his head.†   (source)
  • That is the price they pay; to despise God and Karl Marx in the same sentence.†   (source)
  • Kurtz and Karl Marx joining palms to greet rich guests as they stepped off the boat.†   (source)
  • So tell me, was the Europe of Karl Marx a society like that?†   (source)
  • In the name of our revered Karl Marx, do explain how you reached this contradictory conclusion!†   (source)
  • Counting from the portrait of Karl Marx, the Count placed his hand in the center of the second panel to the right, gave a push, and popped it open.†   (source)
  • The Mbundu and Kongo people have been at war with each other for the last six hundred years, and Dr. Henry Kissinger has at long last discovered the cause: the Kongo are pro-United States, and the Mbundu are followers of Karl Marx.†   (source)
  • Alberto began to talk: "When Kierkegaard went to Berlin in 1841, he might have sat next to Karl Marx at Schel-ling's lectures.†   (source)
  • Karl Marx!†   (source)
  • He was full of puns and pleased good-nature, save when he quoted from Karl Marx and Eugene Debs.†   (source)
  • Read Karl Marx and get the answer, boys.†   (source)
  • And Karl Marx became one of the Marx brothers.†   (source)
  • And says he: —Mendelssohn was a jew and Karl Marx and Mercadante and Spinoza.†   (source)
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  • Tiny Frank Glassman, with his tightly curled hair, was a dead ringer for Harpo Marx.†   (source)
  • With only the portraits of Stalin, Lenin, and Marx to consider, the three men had no choice but to fidget.†   (source)
  • —Wade Marx   (source)
  • Bring her to a Marx Brothers movie, sit on a fart cushion, show her the boxers you have on with the little devils eating hot dogs on them!†   (source)
  • He does not thank God; he openly reveres Marx and quietly refuses religion.†   (source)
  • "I'm Harpo Marx."†   (source)
  • He closed his hand and flexed his thumb, making a bug-eyed face that spoke with the voice of Grouch() Marx.†   (source)
  • What did Marx consider to be the contradiction in capitalism?†   (source)
  • Their Work, abandoned by God and History, by Marx, by Man, by Woman and (in the hours to come) by Children, lay folded on the floor.†   (source)
  • When Josh quoted Bart Simpson to him, Fleming countered with Groucho Marx and then went further and introduced Josh to the movies of the Marx Brothers.†   (source)
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  • Because Kierkegaard became an existentialist and Marx became a materialist?†   (source)
  • After an hour or so, Colonel Marx stopped the car in front of a small shop on a quiet street.†   (source)
  • If the Russkies can fool all of us, maybe we ought to read up on our Marx.†   (source)
  • "There is Marx and Trotsky too," he says.†   (source)
  • Pictures of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin were glued on the back wall.†   (source)
  • Detective Marx?†   (source)
  • This happened especially to Jaime, who made fun of the British royal family and at the age of twelve displayed an interest in reading Marx, a Jew who was spreading revolution around the world.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, you have a two-bedroom suite at the Metropole on the Marx Prospekt.†   (source)
  • One night while watching an old Marx Brothers movie on the Late Show, he was held entranced by a scene where the brothers were searching for a missing painting.†   (source)
  • "King is so hot," an exasperated JFK confided to Bobby before the reverend's arrival, "that it's like [Karl] Marx coming to the White House."†   (source)
  • Henry tuned in to You Bet Your Lift with Groucho Marx.†   (source)
  • I can't wait to call Dr. Marx.†   (source)
  • The historical Marx.†   (source)
  • He romped the aisles in a Groucho Marx lope, administering tongue lashings when he discovered empty shelves where the canned tomatoes or the Post Toasties orthe Ovaltine were supposed to be.†   (source)
  • Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx.†   (source)
  • Against the wall between the doorways is a small bookcase, with a picture of Shakespeare above it, containing novels by Balzac, Zola, Stendhal, philosophical and sociological works by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Marx, Engels, Kropotkin, Max Stirner, plays by Ibsen, Shaw, Strindberg, poetry by Swinburne, Rossetti, Wilde, Ernest Dow-son, Kipling, etc. In the right wall, rear, is a screen door leading out on the porch which extends halfway around the house.†   (source)
  • This is not least due to Marx himself and the entire socialist movement.†   (source)
  • I suggest we try to stick to Marx himself.†   (source)
  • But according to Marx, Hegel was standing on his head.†   (source)
  • So Marx and Darwin's paths crossed, but not only in time and space.†   (source)
  • Marx became what is known as a historical materialist.†   (source)
  • But before we look at that, we must say something about Marx's view of man's labor.†   (source)
  • Marx a spectre is haunting Europe Hilde got off her bed and went to the window facing the bay.†   (source)
  • And there we bring down the curtain on Marx, Sophie.†   (source)
  • Marx had pointed out that human ideologies were a product of the basis of society.†   (source)
  • No, it's not that simple, as Marx expressly points out.†   (source)
  • Marx called this the dictatorship of the proletariat.†   (source)
  • Before he became a communist, the young Marx was preoccupied with what happens to man when he works.†   (source)
  • When he describes man's 'alienation,' he is echoing the central ideas of Hegel and Marx.†   (source)
  • Marx was especially interested in the transition from a capitalist to a communist society.†   (source)
  • I forgot to mention that Marx lived the last 34 years of his life in London.†   (source)
  • Marx's thinking had a practical—or political—objective.†   (source)
  • Marx called these material, economic, and social relations the basis of society.†   (source)
  • The knell has sounded for capitalist private property, Marx would say.†   (source)
  • Each in his own way, both Kierkegaard and Marx took Hegel's philosophy as their point of departure.†   (source)
  • After meeting Scrooge and the little match girl, I have no problem understanding what Marx meant.†   (source)
  • If Marx had rejected this interaction, he would have been a mechanical materialist.†   (source)
  • Marx believed there were a number of inherent contradictions in the capitalist method of production.†   (source)
  • Are we talking about Marx, Darwin, or Freud?†   (source)
  • Marx says, with a Hegelian expression, that the worker becomes alienated.†   (source)
  • But for now there will be no more about Marx.†   (source)
  • No, the question of what was morally right, according to Marx, is a product of the base of society.†   (source)
  • We shall briefly talk about Marx, Darwin, and Freud.†   (source)
  • So Marx didn't believe in a natural right that was eternally valid.†   (source)
  • But this is precisely where Marx aimed his criticism of the capitalist method of production.†   (source)
  • You said that Marx thought capitalism was an unjust form of society.†   (source)
  • And that applies to Marx, Darwin, and Freud?†   (source)
  • After Marx, the socialist movement split into two main streams, Social Democracy and Leninism.†   (source)
  • Change the bloodlines of our Eastern establishment for Marx and there's a distinct parallel.†   (source)
  • Our Chairman Mao is the one who has brought Marx's communist philosophy to life!†   (source)
  • You're on a high floor, and directly across the Marx Prospekt is the roof of an office building.†   (source)
  • Surprising me, Marx ignored her and studied me carefully.†   (source)
  • Dr. Marx keeps telling me he is, but ….†   (source)
  • Dr. Marx gave me a shot to calm me down and prescribed some tranquilizers or something.†   (source)
  • "Miss Montgomery," Detective Marx began, but he was cut neatly off by Neferet.†   (source)
  • Dr. Marx sent over a Social Nurse or something early this morning.†   (source)
  • I wanted to get Detective Marx's card out of my pocket, call him, and have him save the day.†   (source)
  • Marx's "car" was really a huge, all-weather truck with giant wheels and a roll bar.†   (source)
  • When Dad got home he immediately called Dr. Marx.†   (source)
  • She was followed by Detective Marx and Detective Martin.†   (source)
  • Went to see Dr. Marx again today, and he says I'm looking good.†   (source)
  • Detective Marx asked for what seemed like the zillionth time.†   (source)
  • Dr. Marx is black, and he's so young I thought he was an aide of some kind.†   (source)
  • Dr. Marx says he thinks I have an infection.†   (source)
  • "From multiple lacerations and loss of blood," Marx said.†   (source)
  • I asked Detective Marx (I still liked him better of the two).†   (source)
  • I called Dr. Marx's office at 8:30 A.M., and he was there.†   (source)
  • "Well, Zoey is definitely our hero," Detective Marx said.†   (source)
  • "We're here looking for answers, ma'am," Marx said.†   (source)
  • "This is Marx," the deep voice answered on the second ring.†   (source)
  • Detective Marx's concern penetrated through my pain.†   (source)
  • I imagine this means that you continue to be special to your Goddess," Detective Marx said.†   (source)
  • Detective Marx was bending over me, shaking my shoulder.†   (source)
  • "One more question, Miss Redbird," Detective Marx asked me without looking at Neferet.†   (source)
  • Marx looked confused for just a second, then he smiled.†   (source)
  • Once again Detective Marx's strong hands were shaking my shoulders and he was helping me to my feet.†   (source)
  • Finally, I whispered, "Let's go outside and wait for Marx there.†   (source)
  • A paramedic tried to move Marx from my side, but he said, "I'll handle her.†   (source)
  • Detective Marx, I need a minute here, okay?†   (source)
  • Then as Neferet led him from the room Detective Marx hesitated and walked back to me.†   (source)
  • Structurally—this somewhat rudimentary argument went—Marxism was a simple substitute for Christianity, Replace God with Marx, Satan with the bourgeoisie, Heaven with a classless society, the Church with the Party, and the form and purpose of the journey remained similar.†   (source)
  • Then, as if it were perfectly normal to wander about an office in the middle of a conversation, he rose and crossed to the wall, where he gingerly straightened the portrait of Mr. Marx, who, having slipped on his hook, was admittedly undermining the ideological authority of the room.†   (source)
  • Stalin, Lenin, and Marx.†   (source)
  • Marx wanted to dedicate the English edition of his greatest work, Capital, to Darwin, but Darwin declined the honor.†   (source)
  • By this Marx meant the various kinds of equipment, tools, and machinery, as well s the raw materials to be found there.†   (source)
  • Marx believed that in all phases of history there has been a conflict between two dominant classes of society.†   (source)
  • About the same time, Marx had written a doctoral thesis on Democritus and Epicurus—in other words, on the materialism of antiquity.†   (source)
  • We're talking about Marx, and we must therefore take our point of departure in the social conditions during the middle of the last century.†   (source)
  • She had been lying in bed reading about Sophie and Alber-to's conversation on Marx and had fallen asleep.†   (source)
  • Several of these existential philosophers, or existentialists, based their ideas not only on Kierkegaard, but on Hegel and Marx as well.†   (source)
  • This was what Marx meant when he observed that until now, 'philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.'†   (source)
  • This, Marx claimed, is upside down.†   (source)
  • The division of labor, or the distribution of work and ownership, was what Marx called society's 'production relations.'†   (source)
  • Marx emphasized moreover that it is mainly society's ruling class that sets the norms for what is right or wrong.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, we must be wary of identifying everything that calls itself Marxism with Marx's own thinking.†   (source)
  • In Europe, at any rate, we live in a society with more justice—and more solidarity—than Marx did.†   (source)
  • This sum was what Marx called profit.†   (source)
  • In the same way, Marx believed that material relations support, so to speak, everything in the way of thoughts and ideas in society.†   (source)
  • To both Hegel and Marx, work was a positive thing, andwas closely connected with the essence of mankind.†   (source)
  • Yes and no. Today, economists can establish that Marx was mistaken on a number of vital issues, not least his analysis of the crises of capitalism.†   (source)
  • Marx particularly emphasized that it was the economic forces in society that created change and thus drove history forward.†   (source)
  • But in Marx's own time, in what he called a bourgeois or capitalist society, the conflict was first and foremost between the capitalists and the workers, or the proletariat.†   (source)
  • That, briefly, was Marx's point.†   (source)
  • It is said of Marx that he only became a Marxist in the mid-1840s, but even after that he could at times feel it necessary to assert that he was not a Marxist.†   (source)
  • Leninism, which retained Marx's beief that revolution was the only way to combat the old class society, had great influence in Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa.†   (source)
  • Marx developed this idea further.†   (source)
  • When Marx died the year after Darwin, his friend Friedrich En-gels said: As Darwin discovered the theory of organic evolution, so Marx discovered the theory of mankind's historical evolution.†   (source)
  • Marx called this exploitation.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, it would be unreasonable to blame Marx for the negative factors in the so-called socialist countries fifty or a hundred years after his death.†   (source)
  • But because Marx realized that there was an interactive or dialectic relation between bases and superstructure, we say that he is a dialectical materialist.†   (source)
  • Yes and no. Marx understood that conditions in society's superstructure could have an interactive effect on the base of society, but he denied that society's superstructure had any independent history of its own.†   (source)
  • The way a society thinks, what kind of political institutions there are, which laws it has and, not least, what there is of religion, morals, art, philosophy, and science, Marx called society's superstructure.†   (source)
  • It infuriated Marx too.†   (source)
  • Marx would have agreed.†   (source)
  • The majority were in small tour groups, accompanied by guides — one each from Hong Kong and the People's Republic — who spoke acceptable English, or German, or French or, reluctantly, Japanese for those particularly disliked visitors with more money than Marx or Confucius ever had.†   (source)
  • I acquired the complete works of Marx and Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, and others and probed into the philosophy of dialectical and historical materialism.†   (source)
  • The books from Jaime's den were piled in the courtyard, doused with gasoline, and set on fire in an infamous pyre that was fed with the magic books from the enchanted trunks of GreatUncle Marcos, the remaining copies of Nicolas's esoteric treatise, the leather-bound set of the complete works of Marx, and even Trueba's opera scores, producing a scandalous bonfire that filled the neighborhood with smoke and that, in normal times, would have brought fire trucks from every direction.†   (source)
  • On the day beforeChristmas, Lieutenant Colonel Gawie Marx, the deputy commander of Pollsmoor, wandered by my cell after breakfast and said quite casually, "Mandela, would you like to see the city?"†   (source)
  • We learned a little about Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, but only as a backdrop to Mao's great political achievements.†   (source)
  • It was not a language he understood, so Bourne walked to a pair of tall cathedral windows overlooking the wide avenue known as the Marx Prospekt.†   (source)
  • Standing beside the living room table, Dimitri Krupkin spoke on the phone as Alex Conklin sat on the brocaded couch massaging his bootless leg and Bourne stood by the window staring out on the Marx Prospekt.†   (source)
  • I subscribed to Marx's basic dictum, which has the simplicity and generosity of the Golden Rule: "From each according to his ability; to each according to his needs.†   (source)
  • I'm going to call Dr. Marx in the morning and make him tell me; surely he knows, or at least has some idea.†   (source)
  • Dr. Marx suspects how I feel because he makes Dad dole out my pills so that I can't …. maybe I would …. maybe I wouldn't ….†   (source)
  • Dr. Marx wants me to come back Monday.†   (source)
  • I guess I should have called Dr. Marx.†   (source)
  • Dr. Marx insisted Dad come in with me at 8:30 A.M. He told us as gently as he could that he would suggest I stay in Phoenix, as the bleeding might suddenly get worse.†   (source)
  • Mom says we can leave as soon as she can make the arrangements and have me see Dr. Marx so he can tell me what I should and shouldn't do to protect Aunt Thelma and Melvin.†   (source)
  • I've been well enough to go back to Mom's for ages, but Dr. Marx won't release me until he's "absolutely, positively, for sure certain" that my good bugs are in charge of my bad bugs.†   (source)
  • I guess that's the space-people-looking stuff the people were wearing in the hospital when they cleaned up a room after the death of the AIDS patient—face shields, full-body disposable gowns, gloves, protective eyewear, etc. I'll take everything Dr. Marx has for me to read and maybe he'll send me some stuff, or tell Dad where he can buy it and send it to me.†   (source)
  • Marx flipped a couple pages back in the little notebook he'd been writing in before he added, "We do need to speak with Loren Blake?†   (source)
  • But just before he opened the door to the main school building Marx (annoyingly) ruffled my hair and said, "All right, we'll do this your way.†   (source)
  • Detective Marx repeated his question.†   (source)
  • Marx jerked his chin to his right and I tilted my head to see Heath's still body being loaded into an ambulance.†   (source)
  • Detective Marx was beside me, pulling back my hair and sounding very dadlike as he told me to breathe and everything would be okay.†   (source)
  • Marx sighed again, and I could see that he was muttering to himself as he stomped around to help me down from his truck.†   (source)
  • Detective Marx, this is Zoey Redbird.†   (source)
  • "Deep, calming breaths," Marx said, shooting me worried looks whenever he could take his eyes from the treacherous road.†   (source)
  • Breathing heavily, I leaned against the side of the tunnel and fished my cell phone out of my pants pocket, along with Detective Marx's card.†   (source)
  • If you remember anything else, or have any other odd dreams, please don't hesitate to contact me, anytime day or night," Detective Marx said.†   (source)
  • I was too tired to argue with him, plus Marx was on his way and I was sick of the damp, nasty tunnel.†   (source)
  • I've told Detective Marx a lot.†   (source)
  • Actually, everyone in the room, including Detective Marx, was looking at me like they wondered if I'd perhaps hit my head sometime during my adventures and some of my brains had leaked out.†   (source)
  • "Zoey, this is Detective Marx"—she pointed at the taller of the two men—"and Detective Martin from the homicide division of the Tulsa Police Department.†   (source)
  • Detective Marx's voice was urgent.†   (source)
  • Did Detective Marx call you?†   (source)
  • She just needs to get back to the House of Night and she'll be fine:' I saw the paramedic give me a look that clearly said freak, but Detective Marx's strong hands were helping me sit up and his tall body blocked my view of the muttering EMT.†   (source)
  • Marx's sister was a vampyre?†   (source)
  • My friends had been chattering among themselves, clearly giddy with the relief they'd felt since I'd called them while Detective Marx and I talked outside the school and asked them to meet me inside the main building, and to make sure Neferet was there, too.†   (source)
  • Detective Marx asked.†   (source)
  • Marx asked.†   (source)
  • Detective Marx?†   (source)
  • Detective Marx repeated.†   (source)
  • But Marx hadn't moved.†   (source)
  • Marx asked.†   (source)
  • Marx shook his head.†   (source)
  • Marx asked.†   (source)
  • Marx said.†   (source)
  • Detective Marx asked.†   (source)
  • Detective Marx asked.†   (source)
  • First he wanted to do the historical section and assigned me to read Max Weber, Tawney, and Marx.†   (source)
  • Here, as in every other question today, it becomes necessary to quote Marx word for word.†   (source)
  • He'd take her to see the Marx Brothers at the Opera.†   (source)
  • She'd like the Marx Brothers at the Opera, he thought.†   (source)
  • And so, Mr. Marx, I give you fair warning.†   (source)
  • Bernard Marx was saying to himself, as he walked down the corridor to the lift.†   (source)
  • "Yes, Mr. Marx," said the Director portentously.†   (source)
  • "Do you know Bernard Marx?" she asked in a tone whose excessive casualness was evidently forced.†   (source)
  • "He does look glum," said the Assistant Predestinator, pointing at Bernard Marx.†   (source)
  • "Damn you, damn you!" shouted Bernard Marx.†   (source)
  • With impunity, Mr. Marx," he added, turning to Bernard.†   (source)
  • The smile on Bernard Marx's face was contemptuous.†   (source)
  • Odd, odd, odd, was Lenina's verdict on Bernard Marx.†   (source)
  • "Bring three men," he ordered, "and take Mr. Marx into a bedroom.†   (source)
  • If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin,3 were results, not causes, you might survive.†   (source)
  • Good-morning, Mr. Marx.†   (source)
  • It contained Campanula's City of the Sun, More's Utopia, Machiavelli's Discourses and The Prince, as well as long selections from St. Simon, Comte, Marx and Engels.†   (source)
  • And similarly Marx, with his fierce carbuncles and his poverty and the death of children, whose thought was that the angel of history would try in vain to fly against the wind from the past.†   (source)
  • But the more ease and leisure he achieved the more distance and flashing there were; he talked about Thucydides or Marx and showed pictures of history-like visions.†   (source)
  • "Marx," he said, "can you show any reason why I should not now execute the judgment passed upon you?"†   (source)
  • From his place on the opposite side of the changing-room aisle, Bernard Marx overheard what they were saying and turned pale.†   (source)
  • A mental excess had produced in Helmholtz Watson effects very similar to those which, in Bernard Marx, were the result of a physical defect.†   (source)
  • "Ring down to Mr. Helmholtz Watson," he ordered the Gamma-Plus porter, "and tell him that Mr. Bernard Marx is waiting for him on the roof."†   (source)
  • One hundred repetitions three nights a week for four years, thought Bernard Marx, who was a specialist on hypnopaedia.†   (source)
  • Bernard Marx drew a deep breath.†   (source)
  • Turning, with eyes a little saddened by the recollection, of Benito's curly blackness, she saw in a corner the small thin body, the melancholy face of Bernard Marx.†   (source)
  • "And I should like to take this opportunity, Mr. Marx," he went on, "of saying that I'm not at all pleased with the reports I receive of your behaviour outside working hours.†   (source)
  • Delighted, Mr. Marx, delighted.†   (source)
  • Bernard Marx was thinking.†   (source)
  • In a panic, he scrambled to his feet and ran into the other room, vaulted through the open window, and hurrying along the path between the tall agaves was in time to receive Bernard Marx as he climbed out of the helicopter.†   (source)
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