Karl Marx

Quotes

• “We do not dogmatically anticipate the world, but only want to find the new world through criticism of the old one. ... B...”
• “There can be no doubt about the virulence of the hostility which has been shown by the critics of Marxism. Again and aga...”
• “The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and range. The...”
• “Marx never made a discovery in the scientific sense. He never had an illumination which turned his previous ideas upside...”
• “The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets hist...”
• “He who can buy bravery is brace, though a coward. As money is not exchanged for anyone specific quality, for any one spe...”
• “All the sophisticated syllogisms of the ponderous volumes published by Marx, Engels, and hundreds of Marxian authors can...”
• “The intellectual contribution made by Marx to the development of socialism was and remains absolutely unique. But Marx w...”
• “We suffer not only from the development of capitalist production, but also from the incompleteness of that development. ...”
• “[W]hen Karl Marx, the most consistent translator of the altruist morality into practical action and political theory, ad...”
• “Is that to say we are against Free Trade? No, we are for Free Trade, because by Free Trade all economical laws, with the...”
• “England, it is true, in causing a social revolution in Hindostan, was actuated only by the vilest interests, and was stu...”
• “You believe perhaps, gentlemen," said Karl Marx in 1848, "that the production of coffee and sugar is the natural destiny...”
• “The commodity is first of all, an external object, a thing which through its qualities satisfies human needs of whatever...”
• “I cannot help myself; I see here no explanation and reconciliation of a contradiction, but the bare contradiction itself...”
• “We, practical revolutionaries, initiating our own struggle, simply fulfill laws foreseen by Marx, the scientist. We are ...”
• “In its beginnings, the credit system sneaks in as a modest helper of accumulation and draws by invisible threads the mon...”
• “The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and...”
• “In the NKVD as it was now [in 1936], Stalin had a powerful and experienced instrument. At its head stood Yagoda. His dep...”
• “What do you think of the aspect of the money market? … This time, by the by, the thing has assumed European dimensions s...”
• “One cannot discuss a socialism which has built an enormous industry by reducing the standard of living of the masses and...”
• “The criticism of religion ends with the doctrine that man is the supreme being for man, hence the categorical imperative...”
• “You cannot conquer an awakened people. You cannot Prussianize Belgium and France. You cannot eradicate the teachings of ...”
• “Paraphrased and misattributed, actually from "Die Musik des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts und ihre Pflege: Methode der Musik"...”
• “The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, ther...”
• “And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the int...”
• “As for large landed property, its defenders have always, sophistically, identified the economic advantages offered by la...”
• “Often attributed to Lenin or Stalin, less often to Marx. According to the book, "They Never Said It", p. 64, the phrase ...”
• “Labor-power is a commodity sold by the worker in exchange for a "living wage." The worker, Marx insisted, "must constant...”
• “When we have weighed everything, and when our relations in life permit us to choose any given position, we may take that...”
• “At the opposite pole from such imbecilities, the primarily urban character of the dérive, in its element in the great in...”
• “Marx claimed in Volume 1 [of Capital] that there was some interesting economics involved in a labor theory of value, and...”
• “Just heard Gen. White's proclamation that we "have Russia zeroed in from all directions." I am waiting now for Vannevar ...”
• “Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing t...”
• “Money, then, appears as this overturning power both against the individual and against the bonds of society, etc., which...”
• “In civil law the existing property relationships are declared to be the result of the general will. The jus utendi et ab...”
• “Despite all its shortcomings, this Constitution looms against the background of Russo-Prusso-Austrian barbarism as the o...”
• “Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and...”
• “So far as living instruments of labour are concerned, for instance horses, their reproduction is timed by nature itself....”
• “Everything great glitters, glitter begets ambition, and ambition can easily have caused the inspiration or what we thoug...”
• “We have just seen that, apart from money-capital, circulating capital is only another name for commodity-capital. But to...”
• “[B]esides sharing with the pessimist Ricardo the historicization of the economy, by dint of categories such as scarcity ...”
• “Capital is money: Capital is commodities. […] For the movement, in the course of which it adds surplus-value, is its own...”
• “Mit allen ihren Mängeln erscheint diese Konstitution mitten in der russisch−preußisch−österreichischen Barbarei als das ...”
• “When we have chosen the vocation in which we can contribute most to humanity, burdens cannot bend us because they are on...”
• “Marx was not the first person to point out that wealthy people controlling everything was bullshit, you know? He was bet...”
• “Communism… is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true re...”
• “Marx completely lacked a scholar's conscience which is the hallmark of a genuine man of learning. In his works there is ...”
• “Through the emancipation of private property from the community, the State has become a separate entity, beside and outs...”
• “It was the world-renowned Karl Marx, founder of the Marxist-Leninist science, for which application to American and worl...”