Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The circulation of capital realizes value , while living labour creates value . — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond. — 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
An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is. — 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
We cannot tell by looking at the diamond that it is a commodity. When it serves as a use-value, asthetic or mechanical,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Price, taken by itself, is nothing but the monetary expression of 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
