Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. — 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
Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has… — 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 realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“But capital not only lives upon labour. Like a master, at once distinguished and barbarous, it drags with it into its grave… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“...to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, [and] criticise after dinner...” — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently… — 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
He who before was the money owner, now strides in front as capitalist; the possessor of labor-power follows as his laborer. The… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also… — 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
