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Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The increase in the quantity of objects is therefore accompanied by an extension

Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The increase in the quantity of objects is therefore accompanied by an extension of the realm of the alien powers to which man is subjected, and every new product represents a new potentiality of mutual swindling and mutual plundering.

Selfish, Power, Men

Karl Marx (2012). “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”, p.115, Courier Corporation

Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to enslave others by means of such appropriations.

Mean, Men, Fruit

What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development of production; that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; and that dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.

Struggle, Class, Historical

Karl Marx (2008). “The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”, p.139, Wildside Press LLC

The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.

Men, Class, Able

Karl Marx (2016). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume III: The Economist”, p.637, VM eBooks

Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy.

Mean, Hands, Class

Karl Marx (1974). “Capital: The process of circulation of capital”

It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.

Cheating, War, Franklin

Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling, Friedrich Engels (2011). “Capital, Volume I: A Critique of Political Economy”, p.182, Courier Corporation

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Time, Men, Hours

Karl Marx (1976). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Marx and Engels: 1845-48”

Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.

Men, Long, Doe

Karl Marx (2001). “Marxism, Socialism and Religion”, p.20, Resistance Books

Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore violates the conditions necessary to lasting fertility of the soil. By this action it destroys at the same time the health of the town labourer and the intellectual life of the rural labourer.

Men, Intellectual, Fertility

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)”, p.1529, Delphi Classics

Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?

Men, Doe, Income

"Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx (pp. 809 - 810), 1857-1858.

The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Passion, Mean, Violent

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

Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.

Real, Movement, Affair

Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.182, Cambridge University Press

The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity .

Doe, Economic, Concepts

"Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, Notebook VII, The Chapter on Capital, p. 696, 1857-1858.

Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper, etc.

Russia, Race, Names

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1987). “Marx and Engels: 1864-68”, International Pub

Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.

Natural, Labour

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

And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives, at the head of the counter-revolution -- what awaits them?

Revolution, Jew, Emancipation

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

The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.

Love, Needs, Communist

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1988). “The Communist Manifesto”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

Men, Restoration, World

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Robert C. Tucker (1972). “The Marx-Engels reader”

Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.

Class, Earthquakes, Race

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1962). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels on Britain”

From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again.

Christian, Judaism, Jew

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

The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it. Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with there capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated.

Mean, Sprung Up, Sound

Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.29, OUP Oxford

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.

Cracks, Authority, Crisis

The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalised the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production.

Hunting, Discovery, America

Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.823, Cosimo, Inc.

The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

Bourgeoisie, Common, Affair

Karl Marx, Frederick Engels (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.145, Haymarket Books

There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.

Suicide, Pain, Self Harm

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1993). “Collected Works: Marx and Engels, 1880-83”, International Pub

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