Historical-materialism Quote by Karl Marx

This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an…

— Leon Jouhaux

“The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of…

— Karl Marx

“The division of labour, however, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers of…

— Adam Smith

“Union protagonists can be permitted a moment of nostalgia for this 'little' labor movement which no longer exists, nor can ever exist again, but…

— Sidney Lens

“The bourgeois period of history has to create the material basis of the new world — on the one hand universal intercourse founded upon…

— Karl Marx

“In the second half of the twentieth century humankind almost obliterated itself in an argument about production methods.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

— Charles Babbage

“All trades, arts, and handiwork have gained by division of labor, namely, when, instead of one man doing everything, each confines himself to a…

— Immanuel Kant

The labor movement must be destroyed.

— Karl Rove

“The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of…

— Karl Marx

“A labor union is revolutionary in fact. It is not the expressed desire to change the world; it is the change already embodied if…

— Frank Tannenbaum

“It is not enough that the conditions of labour are concentrated at one pole of society in the shape of capital, while at the…

— Karl Marx