"Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen)……" — Karl Marx
"Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of exchange. But it cannot be its own or its own standard of comparison."
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Karl Marx
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331 Quotes by Karl Marx
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Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.
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Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress.…
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The wealthy man is the man whois much, not the one who has much
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There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.
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If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.
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In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.…
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