A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
KARL MARXA commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
KARL MARXCommunism begins where atheism begins.
KARL MARXIf you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.
KARL MARXThe tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
KARL MARXPeople who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.
KARL MARXThis young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial features.
KARL MARXA people without a heritage are easily persuaded.
KARL MARXReligion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
KARL MARXThe less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life – the greater is the store of your estranged being.
KARL MARXMerely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.
KARL MARXThe oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
KARL MARXThe increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.
KARL MARXPolitical power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
KARL MARXWorkers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
KARL MARXFrom each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
KARL MARXCommunism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
KARL MARX