Georgi Plekhanov Quotes

Russia, Philosopher
November 29, 1856 – May, 30, 1918.

Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov was a Russian revolutionary and a Marxist theoretician. He was a founder of the social-democratic movement in Russia and was one of the first Russians to identify himself as "Marxist". Facing political persecution, Plekhanov emigrated to Switzerland in 1880, where he continued in his political activity attempting to overthrow the Tsarist regime in Russia.

Only the person who does not evade conflict and directs his efforts in keeping with the course of society's development can be an effective leader.

Georgi Plekhanov
Labour is the source and the measure of the value of commodities. But is the price of commodities always determined by their value? Do not prices continually vary according to the rarity or abundance of these commodities? The value of a commodity and its price are two different things; and this is the misfortune, the great misfortune of all of us poor, honest folk, who only want justice, and only ask for our own.

Georgi Plekhanov
- Price
- Labour
- Commodity