Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities. — 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 labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Labor, being itself a commodity, is measured as such by the labor time needed to produce the labor-commodity. And what is needed… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
We cannot tell by looking at the diamond that it is a commodity. When it serves as a use-value, asthetic or mechanical,… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
