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Karl Marx Quotes - Page 15

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Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already

Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.

Tasks, Matter, Projects

Karl Marx, Eugene Kamenka (1983). “The Portable Karl Marx”, Viking Adult

Religion is the balm of the people.

People

The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.

Firsts, Facts, Individual

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1970). “The German Ideology”, p.42, INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO

In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.

Responsibility, Ideas, Competition

Karl Marx (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works”

The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralization of state power will be useful for the centralization of the German working class. German predominance would also transfer the center of gravity of the workers' movement in Western Europe from France to Germany, and one has only to compare the movement in the two countries from 1866 until now to see that the German working class is superior to the French both theoretically and organizationally.

Country, Mean, Winning

"The Karl Marx Library: On revolution".

Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle.

Horse, Doctors, Law

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

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

Children, Men

Karl Marx, Terrell Carver (1996). “Marx: Later Political Writings”, p.157, Cambridge University Press

The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.

Winning, World, Uniting

"The Communist Manifesto". Book by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, 1848.

Moments are the elements of profit

Elements, Moments, Profit

Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.267, Cosimo, Inc.

Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.

Eggs, Golden, Occult

Karl Marx, Eden Paul (1933). “Capital”

I am nothing and should be everything.

Fear, Atheism, Rage

Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.37, Hackett Publishing

The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.

Ideas, Development, Rupture

BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.81, BookCaps Study Guides

Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.

Science, Technology, Funny Science

Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.406, Cosimo, Inc.

He who before was the money owner, now strides in front as capitalist; the possessor of labor-power follows as his laborer. The one with an air of importance, smirking, intent on business; the other hesitant, like one who is bringing his own hide to market and has nothing to expect but a hiding.

Air, Hiding, Owners

Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

Museums, Civilization, Dancer

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

Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on a mass scale is necessary, an alteration which can only take place in a practical movement, a revolution; this revolution is necessary, therefore, not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew.

Men, Class, Age

Karl Marx, Frederick Engels (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.19, Haymarket Books

Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones.

Agitation, Bourgeoisie, Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1973). “Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by Friedrich Engels”, p.76, University of Chicago Press

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Life, Real, Party

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.

Bourgeoisie, Needs, Communist Manifesto

BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.18, BookCaps Study Guides

The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities.

Life, Negative, Reason

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

Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life.

Hair, Holy Grail, Gold

Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.149, Cosimo, Inc.

So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.

Pearls, Diamond, Chemist

Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.75, Cambridge University Press

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

Revolution, Spirit, Generalization

"Challenge to Karl Marx, Volume 25". Book by John Kenneth Turner (p. 219), 1941.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Money, Eggs, Golden

"Capital, Volume I". Book by Karl Marx, Vol. I, Ch. 4, pp. 171 - 172, 1867.

England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia... When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch... and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain.

Idols, Skulls, Progress

"The Future Results of British Rule in India," New York Daily Tribune, August 8, 1853.

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