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Values Quotes by Karl Marx
- I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.
- So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.
- Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of…
- Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as…
- We cannot tell by looking at the diamond that it is a commodity. When it serves as a use-value, asthetic or mechanical, on the breast…
- Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.
- The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor…
- Price, taken by itself, is nothing but the monetary expression of value.
- A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the…
- The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity .
- 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…
- The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power…
- Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
- 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 product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at…
- Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of…
- It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has…
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