--- title: "14 Commodity Quotes By Karl Marx" description: "14 Commodity quotes by Karl Marx. Plus more from Karl Marx and more Commodity sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4a/karl-marx-399_commodities_gold-is-now-money-with-reference-to-all_2278575.jpg" --- > [Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/gold-is-now-money-with-reference-to-all-other-commodities-only/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4a/karl-marx-399_commodities_gold-is-now-money-with-reference-to-all_2278575.jpg) > [Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/money-degrades-all-the-gods-of-man-and-converts-them-into-commodities/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e1/karl-marx-399_commodity_money-degrades-all-the-gods-of-man-and-c_9912.jpg) > [The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/the-circulation-of-commodities-is-the-original-precondition-of-the/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f04/karl-marx-399_circulation_the-circulation-of-commodities-is-the-or_1134803.jpg) > [There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/there-is-a-physical-relation-between-physical-things-but-it-is/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/075/karl-marx-399_commodities_there-is-a-physical-relation-between-phy_511877.jpg) > [We cannot tell by looking at the diamond that it is a commodity. When it serves as a use-value, asthetic or mechanical,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/we-cannot-tell-by-looking-at-the-diamond-that-it-is-a-commodity-when/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/252/karl-marx-399_breasts_we-cannot-tell-by-looking-at-the-diamond_3114408.jpg) > [The labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/the-labour-power-is-a-commodity-not-capital-in-the-hands-of-the/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b89/karl-marx-399_capitalist_the-labour-power-is-a-commodity-not-capi_737626.jpg) > [Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/money-appears-as-measure-in-homer-e-g-oxen-earlier-than-as-medium-of/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89e/karl-marx-399_barter_money-appears-as-measure-in-homer-e-g-ox_368443.jpg) > [The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/the-capitalist-knows-that-all-commodities-however-scurvy-they-may/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ec/karl-marx-399_capitalist_the-capitalist-knows-that-all-commoditie_2165855.jpg) > [The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/the-values-of-commodities-are-directly-as-the-times-of-labor-employed/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/add/karl-marx-399_commodity_the-values-of-commodities-are-directly-a_2016300.jpg) > [A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/a-commodity-appears-at-first-sight-an-extremely-obvious-trivial-thing/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e19/karl-marx-399_analysis_a-commodity-appears-at-first-sight-an-ex_1880275.jpg) > [A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/a-commodity-has-a-value-because-it-is-a-crystallization-of-social/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/952/karl-marx-399_amount_a-commodity-has-a-value-because-it-is-a_3046149.jpg) > [Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/let-us-consider-the-actual-worldly-jew-not-the-sabbath-jew-as-bauer/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f67/karl-marx-399_bills_let-us-consider-the-actual-worldly-jew-n_2812838.jpg) > [“In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed—a class…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/in-proportion-as-the-bourgeoisie-i-e-capital-is-developed-in-the-same/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/533/karl-marx-399_articles_in-proportion-as-the-bourgeoisie-i-e-cap_683674.jpg) > [Labor, being itself a commodity, is measured as such by the labor time needed to produce the labor-commodity. And what is needed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/labor-being-itself-a-commodity-is-measured-as-such-by-the-labor-time/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/790/karl-marx-399_alive_labor-being-itself-a-commodity-is-measur_1633837.jpg) ## Other authors on Commodity ## More by Karl Marx > [“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/economists-have-a-singular-method-of-procedure-there-are-only-two/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) > [As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/as-the-variable-capital-always-stays-in-the-hands-of-the-capitalist/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) > [Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/money-degrades-all-the-gods-of-man-and-converts-them-into-commodities/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) > [As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/as-a-beast-of-toil-an-ox-is-fixed-capital-if-he-is-eaten-he-no-longer/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) > [Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/communism-is-the-genuine-resolution-of-the-antagonism-between-man-and/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) > [It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/it-is-not-the-consciousness-of-men-that-determines-their-being-but-on/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) > [Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/philosophy-is-to-the-real-world-as-masturbation-is-to-sex/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) > [“Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/go-on-get-out-last-words-are-for-fools-who-haven-t-said-enough/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) > [“If you love without evoking love in return - if through the vital expression of yourself as a loving person you fail to become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/if-you-love-without-evoking-love-in-return-if-through-the-vital/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) > [Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/do-not-be-deluded-by-the-abstract-word-freedom-whose-freedom-not-the/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) > [The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/the-burgeoisie-by-the-rapid-improvement-of-all-instruments-of/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) > [Ideas do not exist separately from language.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/ideas-do-not-exist-separately-from-language/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/so-in-jewry-we-recognise-a-contemporary-universal-anti-social/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) > [The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/the-class-struggle-necessarily-leads-to-the-dictatorship-of-the/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) > [If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/if-this-labourer-were-in-possession-of-his-own-means-of-production/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/commodity/karl-marx/#itemlist", "name": "14 Commodity Quotes By Karl Marx", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, 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