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Karl Marx Quotes - Page 14

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It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.

It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.

Democracies Have, Years, Democracy

A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children.

Children, Yesterday, Blood

Karl Marx (2016). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume I: The Economist”, p.450, VM eBooks

...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.

Doe, Compulsion, Realms

Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole”, p.954, Cosimo, Inc.

...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts itself over the general. Every demand for the most simple bourgeois financial reform, for the most ordinary liberalism, for the most commonplace republicanism, for the flattest democracy is forthwith punished as an assault upon society and is branded as Socialism.

Simple, Class, Circles

Karl Marx (2008). “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.

Fashion, Flower, Moving

"Collected Works", v. 3, " Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right" by Karl Marx, 1843.

There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.

Different, Commodity, Relation

Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.83, Cosimo, Inc.

In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.

Struggle, Class, Bourgeoisie

BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.52, BookCaps Study Guides

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

Wisdom, Income, Politics

BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.84, BookCaps Study Guides

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

Law, People, Chance

Karl Marx (1975). “Early writings”, Vintage

Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.

Simple, Gold, Commodity

Karl Marx (2016). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume I: The Economist”, p.27, VM eBooks

If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.

Form, Reproduction, Ifs

Karl Marx (2016). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume I: The Economist”, p.333, VM eBooks

Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

Exercise, Effort, Growth

Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.

Dog, Long Ago, Gone

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.63, Haymarket Books

All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice.

Peace, Ubuntu, Practice

Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.

War, Hero, Debt

In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.

Historical, Gentleman, Revolution

Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.296, Oxford University Press, USA

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

Communication, Communist Manifesto, Communism

Karl Marx (2012). “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”, p.102, Courier Corporation

No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.

Bourgeoisie, Wages, Cash

Karl Marx (1950). “Communist Manifesto: The revolutionary text that changed the course of history”, p.1832, Harriman House Limited

As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.

Toil, Beast, Instruments

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

The labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.

Hands, Long, Commodity

Karl Marx (1957). “Capital”

The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.

Self, Return, Moments

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

Usury lives in the pores of production, as it were, just as the gods of Epicurus lived in the space between the worlds.

Space, World, Usury

Karl Marx (1974). “Capital: The process of capitalist production as a whole”

Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.

Needs, Language, Consciousness

"The German Ideology". Book by Karl Marx, Vol. III, 30, 1845-1846.

Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.

Cash, Social Consciousness, Ideals

Karl Marx (2012). “The Essential Marx”, p.72, Courier Corporation

Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld dominationis immutable.

Russia, Tactics, May

Speech delivered in London, January 22, 1867.

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