Karl Marx Quotes
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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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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
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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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In a social order dominated by capitalist production even the non-capitalist producer is gripped by capitalist conceptions.
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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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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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It is in this sense that Franklin says, 'war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.'
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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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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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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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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 this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work beyond beyond the time necessary for the reproduction of his means of subsistence, say 8 hours a day.
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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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Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society, L. Easton, trans. (1967), p. 36
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What's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose.
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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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Der Philosoph legt sich – also selbst eine abstrakte Gestalt des entfremdeten Menschen – als den Maßstab der entfremdeten Welt an.
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It goes without saying that the normal durability of fixed capital is calculated on the supposition that all the conditions under which it can perform its functions normally during that time are fulfilled, just as we assume, in placing a mans life at 30 years on the average,that he will wash himself.
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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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But if the labourers could live on air they could not be bought at any price.
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Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.