--- title: "8 Etc Quotes By Karl Marx" description: "8 Etc quotes by Karl Marx. Plus more from Karl Marx and more Etc sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e77/karl-marx-399_abolish_there-are-besides-eternal-truths-such-as_880456.jpg" --- > [There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/there-are-besides-eternal-truths-such-as-freedom-etc-that-are-common/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e77/karl-marx-399_abolish_there-are-besides-eternal-truths-such-as_880456.jpg) > [No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/no-sooner-is-the-exploitation-of-the-labourer-by-the-manufacturer-so/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17a/karl-marx-399_bourgeoisie_no-sooner-is-the-exploitation-of-the-lab_1144459.jpg) > [The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralisation of the state power will be useful for the centralisation of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/the-french-need-a-thrashing-if-the-prussians-win-the-centralisation/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7a/karl-marx-399_centre_the-french-need-a-thrashing-if-the-pruss_1346460.jpg) > [Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/colonial-system-public-debts-heavy-taxes-protection-commercial-wars/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76d/karl-marx-399_birth_colonial-system-public-debts-heavy-taxes_1550178.jpg) > [Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/russia-is-a-name-usurped-by-the-muscovites-they-are-not-slavs-they-do/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab8/karl-marx-399_etc_russia-is-a-name-usurped-by-the-muscovit_1621727.jpg) > [The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralization of state power will be useful for the centralization of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/the-french-need-a-thrashing-if-the-prussians-win-the-centralization/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/409/karl-marx-399_centre_the-french-need-a-thrashing-if-the-pruss_2646691.jpg) > [As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/as-for-slavery-there-is-no-need-for-me-to-speak-of-its-bad-aspects/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/244/karl-marx-399_america_as-for-slavery-there-is-no-need-for-me-t_2673325.jpg) > [The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole --…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/the-most-interesting-acquaintanceship-i-have-struck-up-here-is-that/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e35/karl-marx-399_action_the-most-interesting-acquaintanceship-i_2891880.jpg) ## Other authors on Etc ## 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/etc/karl-marx/#itemlist", "name": "8 Etc Quotes By Karl Marx", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. 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