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Karl Marx Quotes - Page 7

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Music is the mirror of reality.

Music is the mirror of reality.

Reality, Mirrors, Music Is

Karl Marx, Regula Qureshi (2002). “Music and Marx: Ideas, Practice, Politics”, p.9, Psychology Press

In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.

Class, Spare Time, Mass

Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.581, Cosimo, Inc.

The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!

Country, Winning, Men

BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.130, BookCaps Study Guides

One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.

Tasks, World, Philosopher

Karl Marx (1976). “The German Ideology: Including Theses on Feuerbach and Introduction to The Critique of Political Economy”, Pyr Books

Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.

Moving, Hands, Democracy

Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of money: 1) private property for private property; 2) society for private property; 3) private property for society. But Christ is alienated God and alienated man. God has value only insofar as he represents Christ, and man has value only insofar as he represents Christ. It is the same with money.

Men, Ideas, Christ

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

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

Giving Up, Real, People

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

Philosophy is to science as masturbation is to sex.

Sex, Philosophy, Masturbation

The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state

Purpose, States, Bureaucracy

Karl Marx (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Marx and Engels: 1843-44”

The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy .

Gambling, Debt, Joints

Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.827, Cosimo, Inc.

Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

Life, Determined, Consciousness

Erich Fromm, Karl Marx (2013). “Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'”, p.162, Bloomsbury Publishing

It's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way.

Littles, Way, Ass

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1983). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”

Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.

Dream, Fear, Atheism

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Animal, Political, Politics

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

A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production.

Greatness, Relative Value, Substance

Karl Marx (1913). “Value, Price and Profit”

What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.

Fall, Victory, Bourgeoisie

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

When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.

Plunder, Position, Ascendancy

Karl Marx (1932). “Capital: The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings”

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

Country, Communication, Winning

Karl Marx (2013). “The Communist Manifesto”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Inspirational, Real, Fighting

David McLellan, Karl Marx (1972). “The thought of Karl Marx: an introduction”

It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.

Religious, Water, Political

Karl Marx (2018). “The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings: & Selected Writings”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

Ideas do not exist separately from language.

Ideas, Language

Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

Historical, Tragedy, Farce

Karl Marx (1935). “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”, New York : International publishers

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

Class, Ideas, Intellectual

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1970). “The German Ideology”, p.64, INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO

Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.

Christian, Giving, Asceticism

BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.94, BookCaps Study Guides

The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer.

Self, Fundamentals, Accumulation

Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.848, Cosimo, Inc.

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