Socialism Quotes by Karl Marx

9 Socialism quotes by Karl Marx

If you’re curious about Marx’s take on socialism, this short set offers a clear glimpse of his core arguments. It’s a modest collection, yet each line carries the weight of his influence on political thought.

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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

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Democracy is the road to socialism.

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“No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind”

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We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance…

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“Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to…

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...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more…

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“When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast…

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“The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the…

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“The Constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and the red republicans, the heroes of Africa, the thunder from the…

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Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

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As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor…

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Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the…

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It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

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Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex

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“Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!”

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“If you love without evoking love in return - if through the vital expression of yourself as a loving person you fail to become…

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Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of…

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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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Ideas do not exist separately from language.

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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…

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