Capitalism Quotes by Karl Marx

Religion is the heart of a heartless system (capitalism).

— Karl Marx

Democracy is the road to socialism.

— Karl Marx

Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.

— Karl Marx

If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.

— Karl Marx

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

— Karl Marx

Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.

— Karl Marx

There is only one way to kill capitalism - by taxes, taxes, and more taxes.

— Karl Marx

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.

— Karl Marx

But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.

— Karl Marx

Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by…

— Karl Marx

“By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make that labouring power during…

— Karl Marx

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources…

— Karl Marx

Fascism in power is the open, terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, the most chauvinistic, the most imperialistic elements of finance capitalism.

— Karl Marx

The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private…

— Karl Marx

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society…

— Karl Marx

“But capital not only lives upon labour. Like a master, at once distinguished and barbarous, it drags with it into its grave…

— Karl Marx

The will of the capitalist is certainly to take as much as possible. What we have to do is not to talk…

— Karl Marx

...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more…

— Karl Marx

The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under…

— Karl Marx

“To say that "the worker has an interest in the rapid growth of capital", means only this: that the more speedily the…

— Karl Marx

Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take…

— Karl Marx

By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the…

— Karl Marx

“The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole…

— Karl Marx

“The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly…

— Karl Marx

“This false appearance distinguishes wages labour from other historical forms of labour. On the basis of the wages system even the unpaid…

— Karl Marx

“Or how does it happen that trade, which after all is nothing more than the exchange of products of various individuals and…

— Karl Marx

“The cry for an equality of wages rests, therefore, upon a mistake is an inane wish never to be fulfilled. It is…

— Karl Marx

“Take the example of our spinner. We have seen that, to daily reproduce his labouring power, he must daily reproduce a value…

— Karl Marx