Karl Marx Quotes
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The object of art - like every other product - creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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In a social order dominated by capitalist production even the non-capitalist producer is gripped by capitalist conceptions.
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It is impossible to persue this nonsense any further.
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Die Klasse, welche die herrschende materielle Macht der Gesellschaft ist, ist zugleich ihre herrschende geistige Macht. Die Klasse, die die Mittel zur materiellen Produktion zu ihrer Verfügung hat, disponiert damit zugleich über die Mittel zur geistigen Produktion.
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The whole mystery of commodities, all the magic and necromancy that surrounds the products of labor as long as they take the form of commodities, vanishes therefore, so soon as we come to other forms of production.
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What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.
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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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Prometheus ist der vornehmste Heilige und Märtyrer im philosophischen Kalender.
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
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It is in this sense that Franklin says, 'war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.'
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Only that position can impart dignity in which we do not appear as servile tools but rather create independently within our circle.
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A class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increase capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.
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In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.
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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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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
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Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale even in foreign countries, so that titles to property are exportable, although the railway itself is not.
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The object before us, to begin with, material production.
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Money is a crystal formed of necessity in the course of the exchanges, whereby different products of labour are practically equated to one another and thus by practice converted into commodities.
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There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.
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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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Das Philosophisch-Werden der Welt ist zugleich ein Weltlich-Werden der Philosophie; ihre Verwirklichung ist zugleich ihr Verlust.
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What's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose.
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Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.