Karl Marx

Karl Marx

"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."
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"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."
Karl Marx
"...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the gallant French, are burdened with a spirit of narrow-mindedness. Anybody who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex (the ugly ones included)."
Karl Marx Selected Letters: The Personal Correspondence 1844-1877
"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."
Karl Marx The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, that each time ended, either in the revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes."
Karl Marx The Communist Manifesto
"There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits."
Karl Marx Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
"“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. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.”"
Karl Marx The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
"“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”"
Karl Marx Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
"The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future."
Karl Marx
"Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity."
Karl Marx
"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."
Karl Marx
"In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality."
Karl Marx
"In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."
Karl Marx
"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."
Karl Marx
"Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand."
Karl Marx
"Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state."
Karl Marx
"Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed."
Karl Marx
"The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."
Karl Marx
"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."
Karl Marx
"The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money."
Karl Marx
"Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer."
Karl Marx
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