Top 25 Quotes by Karl Marx of 414 - Page 12

In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse.

In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse.

Economics, Grows, Laborers

"The Communist Manifesto: with selections from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte and Capital by Karl Marx".

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Karl Marx

Division Of Labor, Horizon, Phases

Critique of the Gotha Program pt. 1 (1875).

By the aristocracy of finance must here be understood not merely the great loan promoters and speculators in public funds, in regard to whom it is immediately obvious that their interests coincide with the interests of the state power. All modern finance, the whole of the banking business, is interwoven in the closest fashion with public credit.

Karl Marx

Fashion, Aristocracy, Banking

Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.334, Oxford University Press, USA

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

Karl Marx

Communist Manifesto, Increase, Proportion

Karl Marx (1950). “Communist Manifesto: The revolutionary text that changed the course of history”, p.1831, Harriman House Limited

English law in 1572 decreed that beggars above 14 years of age are to be severely flogged and branded on the left ear unless some one will take them into service for two years; in case of a repetition of the offense, if they are over 18, they are to be executed, unless some one will take them into service for two years; but for the third offence they are to be executed without mercy as felons.

Karl Marx

Years, Law, Two

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.

Karl Marx

Bourgeoisie, Communist Manifesto, Instruments

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.44, Haymarket Books

All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

Karl Marx

Real, Men, Air

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1968). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected works in one volume”

If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people.

Karl Marx

Selfish, Sacrifice, People

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

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition).

Karl Marx

Path, Royal, Chance

David Harvey, Karl Marx (2010). “A companion to Marx's Capital”, Verso Books

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Karl Marx

Passion, Mean, Political

Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.455, Oxford University Press, USA

Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.

Karl Marx

Writing, Goes On, Lasts

Nature is man's inorganic body -- that is to say, nature insofar as it is not the human body. Man lives from nature -- i.e., nature is his body -- and he must maintain a continuing dialogue with it is he is not to die. To say that man's physical and mental life is linked to nature simply means that nature is linked to itself, for man is a part of nature.

Karl Marx

Mean, Men, Body

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.151, Haymarket Books

Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital , in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit .

Karl Marx

Expression, Credit, Usury

"Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, Notebook V, The Chapter on Capital, p. 455, 1857-1858.

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere. The bourgeoisie has, through its exploitation of the world market, given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. To the great chagrin of reactionaries, it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood.

Karl Marx

Country, Character, Feet

In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be put an end to. In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end.

Karl Marx

Class, Individual, Antagonism

Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.264, Cambridge University Press

The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.

Karl Marx

Commodity, Circulation, Originals

Karl Marx (1973). “Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy”, Vintage Books USA

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

Karl Marx

Writing, History, Movement

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1976). “Collected works”

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Karl Marx

Birthday, Class, Ideas

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “The Communist Manifesto (Diversion Classics)”, p.26, Diversion Books

As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital .

Karl Marx

People, Division, Jehovah

Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.396, Cosimo, Inc.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived.

Karl Marx

Circles, Understanding, Details

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

Karl Marx

Numbers, Doubt, Idlers

Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling, Friedrich Engels (2011). “Capital, Volume I: A Critique of Political Economy”, p.405, Courier Corporation

There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not by the offended, but by the offender himself. The first blow dealt to the French monarchy proceeded from the nobility, not from the peasants. The Indian revolt does not commence with the ryots, tortured, dishonoured and stripped naked by the British, but with the sepoys, clad, fed and petted, fatted and pampered by them.

Karl Marx

Blow, Historical, Firsts

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin (1986). “India, National Liberation and Class Struggles: A Collection of Classical Marxist Writings”

Labor, being itself a commodity, is measured as such by the labor time needed to produce the labor-commodity. And what is needed to produce this labor-commodity? Just enough labor time to produce the objects indispensable to the constant maintenance of labor, that is, to keep the worker alive and in a condition to propagate his race. The natural price of labor is no other than the wage minimum.

Karl Marx

Race, Maintenance, Alive

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)”, p.326, Delphi Classics

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Karl Marx

Medicine, Doubt, Disease

In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off.

Karl Marx

Honesty, Past, Men

Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.594, Oxford University Press, USA

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