Karl Marx Quotes
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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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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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But if the labourers could live on air they could not be bought at any price.
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The object before us, to begin with, material production.
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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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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.
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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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The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity.
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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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Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
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Unlimited exploitation of cheap labour-power is the sole foundation of their power to compete.
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Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
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There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.
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The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
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Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.
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In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.
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No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.
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The law of gravity thus asserts itself when a house falls about our ears.
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Denn der Kapitalismus ist schon in der Grundlage aufgehoben durch die Voraussetzung, daß der Genuß als treibendes Motiv wirkt, nicht die Bereicherung selbst.
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In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
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One capitalist always kills many.
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Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange,because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of exchange. But it cannot be its own or its own standard of comparison.