Usury lives in the pores of production, as it were, just as the gods of Epicurus lived in the space between the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing;… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the… — 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
What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases… — 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… — 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 bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and… — 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
“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
