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 MARXFollow your own path, no matter what people say.
KARL MARXThe education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions.
KARL MARXCommunism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality have to adjust itself.
KARL MARXRevolutions are the locomotives of history.
KARL MARXIn history as in nature, decay is the laboratory of life.
KARL MARXSocial reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.
KARL MARXPolitical power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
KARL MARXIn proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
KARL MARXThe theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
KARL MARXWe call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.
KARL MARXThe production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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 MARXI am a machine condemned to devour books.
KARL MARXIn reality, the laborer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
KARL MARXThe philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
KARL MARX