The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Nobody — not even “a musician of the future” — can live upon future products.” — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. — 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
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
Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Men [sic] make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it… — 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
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
“Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only because… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Finally, there came a time when everything that men had considered as inalienable became an object of exchange, of traffic and could… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The values of commodities are directly as the times of labour employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself… — 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
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