Karl Marx Quotes
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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The labour-power is a commodity, not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
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Religion is the opium of the masses.
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If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them.
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The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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Der Philosoph legt sich – also selbst eine abstrakte Gestalt des entfremdeten Menschen – als den Maßstab der entfremdeten Welt an.
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There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
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It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.
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Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
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The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.
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The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
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It is impossible to persue this nonsense any further.
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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
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Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.