The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“This class has always to sacrifice a part of itself in order not to be wholly destroyed.” — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social… The Communists have not… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralization of state power will be useful for the centralization of the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed—a class… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralisation of the state power will be useful for the centralisation of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are… — Karl Marx Copy Share
As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way… — Karl Marx Copy Share
As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor… — Karl Marx Copy Share
Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the… — Karl Marx Copy Share
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness. — Karl Marx Copy Share
“If you love without evoking love in return - if through the vital expression of yourself as a loving person you fail to become… — Karl Marx Copy Share
Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of… — Karl Marx Copy Share
The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization. — Karl Marx Copy Share
So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development in which… — Karl Marx Copy Share
If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work… — Karl Marx Copy Share
