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 MARXCapital is dead labour, which, vampire like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
More Karl Marx Quotes
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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Democracy is the road to socialism.
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Your favourite virtue – Simplicity.
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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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Money is the alienated essence of man’s labor and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.
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May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are ‘peaceful’.
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Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be in itself a power.
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I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.
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The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.
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If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.
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Follow your own path, no matter what people say.
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The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself.
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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