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
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. — 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
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 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
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
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
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
“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
