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Capital Quotes by Karl Marx
- As capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer must grow worse.
- Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital…
- All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital ,…
- A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of…
- As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as…
- The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies…
- Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as…
- A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this…
- The labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he…
- An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less…
- In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
- As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that…
- Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
- In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
- Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
- Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings…
- The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think,…
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