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Karl Marx Quotes - Page 11

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An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.

An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.

Art, Pleasure, Produce

These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time.

Obstacles, Individual, Capacity

Karl Marx (1967). “Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalistic Production”

The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.

Men, Doctrine, Needs

The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.

Essence, Moral, Presses

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.

Division Of Labor, Competition, Together

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1973). “Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by Friedrich Engels”, p.97, University of Chicago Press

Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.

May, Dirt

Karl Marx (2016). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume I: The Economist”, p.51, VM eBooks

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Country, Shows

Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.13, Cosimo, Inc.

...it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be.

Criticism, Littles, Conflict

Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). “German socialist philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital , and allowed to live only so far as the interest to the ruling class requires it.

Character, Class, Want

BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.60, BookCaps Study Guides

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy

Democracy, Reason, States

Karl Marx, Joseph O'Malley (1977). “Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy Of Right'”, p.31, CUP Archive

As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone .

Hands, Variables, Way

Karl Marx (1978). “Capital: a critique of political economy”

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.

Men, Race, Years

Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.72, OUP Oxford

If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.

Wigs, Stills, Left

Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.29, Hackett Publishing

The circulation of capital realizes value , while living labour creates value .

Realizing, Circulation, Labour

"Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, Notebook V, The Chapter on Capital, p. 463, 1857-1858.

Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences.

Difficult

Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction

Germany, Firsts, Destruction

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.

Writing, Mean, Order

Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market.

House, Construction, Process

Karl Marx (1997). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: .. Karl Marx: Capital vol.II”

Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and he must do so in all social formations and under all possible modes of production.

Men, People, Savages

Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.738, OUP Oxford

The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole - besides being an homme d'action [man of action] - that I have ever met. His sympathies are all on the German side, though in manners and speech he is also a Frenchman. He cares nothing for the struggle of nationalities and only knows the racial struggle. He hates all Orientals, among whom he numbers Russians Turks, Greeks, Armenians, etc., with equal impartiality.... His aim now is to raise a German legion in London.

Hate, Struggle, Men

If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin.

Suffering, Skins, Looks

Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.

Doe, Commerce, Capitalist

Karl Marx (2016). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume II: The Economist”, p.486, VM eBooks

But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.

Law, Capitalist, Negation

Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.837, Cosimo, Inc.

The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews, and what is more, a wonderful means whereby out of money to make more money.

Mean, Smell, Looks

Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.89, Cambridge University Press

The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley of ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment.

Men, Self, Hands

Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.161, Hackett Publishing

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