Slavery Quotes by Karl Marx

11 Slavery quotes by Karl Marx

Marx frames slavery as a stark example of class exploitation, weaving economic theory with moral outrage. This brief collection distills his powerful analysis into a handful of memorable statements.

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The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.

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In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part…

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Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation,…

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In all of human history no country or no people have suffered such terrible slavery, conquest and foreign oppression and no country…

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“The present struggle between the South and North is, therefore, nothing but a struggle between two social systems, the system of slavery…

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What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over…

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If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy…

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As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the…

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“This false appearance distinguishes wages labour from other historical forms of labour. On the basis of the wages system even the unpaid…

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“In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also…

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“And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society and to impose…

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The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.

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