Capitalism Quote by Karl Marx

“To exploit living labour, capital must destroy dead labour which is still useful. Loving to suck warm young blood, it kills corpses.”

— Amadeo Bordiga

“But capital goes wherever there are men, poor enough to be exploited.”

— Pyotr Kropotkin

“Capital requires the separation of the worker from the means of production and subsistence”

— Peter Linebaugh

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body; time they…

— William Cowper Brann

“Capitalism distinguishes ‘capital’ from mere ‘wealth’.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.

— Vladimir Lenin

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not…

— Abraham Lincoln

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great,…

— William Graham Sumner

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed had not labor first existed.

— Abraham Lincoln

Thus, the capital owner is not a parasite or a rentier but a worker - a capital worker. A distinction between labor work and…

— Louis O. Kelso

“No other place can so convincingly claim to be the capital of capitalism, the capital of the 20th century and the capital of the…

— Kenneth T. Jackson