Jewish Question/karl Marx

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    The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
    Karl Marx (1818–1883)

    Don: Why are they closed? They’re all closed, every one of them.
    Pawnbroker: Sure they are. It’s Yom Kippur.
    Don: It’s what?
    Pawnbroker: It’s Yom Kippur, a Jewish holiday.
    Don: It is? So what about Kelly’s and Gallagher’s?
    Pawnbroker: They’re closed, too. We’ve got an agreement. They keep closed on Yom Kippur and we don’t open on St. Patrick’s.
    Billy Wilder (b. 1906)

    The question “From where does the poet get it?” addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    a big picture of K. Marx with an axe,
    “Where I cut off one it will never grow again.”
    O Karl would it were true
    I’d put my saw to work for you
    & the wicked social tree would fall right down.
    Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

    The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
    —Karl Marx (1818–1883)