“To say that "the worker has an interest in the rapid growth of capital", means only this: that the more speedily the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
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 appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“within the capitalist system all methods for raising the social productiveness of labour are brought about at the cost of the individual… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Such a crises occurs only where the ever-lengthening chain of payments, and an artificial system of settling them, has been fully developed.… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also… — 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