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Karl Marx Quotes - Page 13

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In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

Class, Development, Association

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.71, Haymarket Books

The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.

Bricks And Mortar, Battle, Bourgeoisie

Karl Marx, Terrell Carver (1996). “Marx: Later Political Writings”, p.202, Cambridge University Press

The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.

Church, Income, Pardon

Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.51, OUP Oxford

Price, taken by itself, is nothing but the monetary expression of value.

Taken, Expression, Monetary

Karl Marx, Hugh Griffith, F. Engels (2009). “Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels”, p.102, Collector's Library

Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself in his work but denies himself. . . . The worker therefore feels himself at home only during his leisure time, whereas at work he feels homeless.

Home, Doe, Leisure

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, John E. Elliott (1981). “Marx and Engels on economics, politics, and society: essential readings with editorial commentary”

In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment against the bourgeoisie in the interest of the exploited working class alone. Thus, the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new masters and whispering in his ears sinister prophesies of coming catastrophe.

Revenge, Class, Sight

Karl Marx, Frederick Engels (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.36, Haymarket Books

It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.

Might, Paper, Paradoxical

"Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, Notebook VII, The Chapter on Capital, p. 734, 1857-1858.

The redeeming feature of war is that it puts a nation to the test. As exposure to the atmosphere reduces all mummies to instant dissolution, so war passes supreme judgment upon social systems that have outlived their vitality.

War, Atmosphere, Tests

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

Communism, Marxist, Knows

Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.

Doe, Labels, Stalking

Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.85, Cosimo, Inc.

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.

Independent, White, America

Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.329, Cosimo, Inc.

As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the good side of slavery. I do not mean indirect slavery, the slavery of proletariat; I mean direct slavery, the slavery of the Blacks in Surinam, in Brazil, in the southern regions of North America. Direct slavery is as much the pivot upon which our present-day industrialism turns as are machinery, credit, etc. … Slavery is therefore an economic category of paramount importance.

Mean, America, Southern

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

Parliamentary cretinism: that peculiar malady which since 1848 has raged all over the Continent, which holds those infected by it fast in an imaginary world and robs them of all sense, all memory, all understanding of the rude external world.

Memories, Rude, Understanding

Karl Marx (2008). “The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”, p.91, Wildside Press LLC

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Money, Earth, Cash

Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.

Believe, Eye, Magic

Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.454, Oxford University Press, USA

Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same.

Doe, Conventions, States

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

Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.

Substance, Elements, Plant

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

There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand, there have started into life industrial and scientific forces which no epoch of former human history had ever suspected. On the other hand, there exist symptoms of decay, far surpassing the horrors recorded of the latter times of the Roman empire. In our days everything seems pregnant with its contrary.

Party, Hands, Decay

Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.368, Oxford University Press, USA

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Business, Sight, Analysis

Karl Marx (1988). “Marx Selections”, MacMillan Publishing Company

Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale even in foreign countries, so that titles to property are exportable, although the railway itself is not.

Country, Hands, Titles

Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Bibbins Aveling, Friedrich Engels (1961). “Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production”

In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims.

Identity, Way, States

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Collected works”

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

Nature, Law, Different

There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.

People, World, Looks

Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

Rewards, Quantity, Labour

Karl Marx, Hugh Griffith, F. Engels (2009). “Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels”, p.97, Collector's Library

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

Philosophical, Mad, Gone

Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.171, Cosimo, Inc.

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