Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Born in the Kingdom of Prussi...
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends. Karl Marx
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. Karl Marx
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. Karl Marx
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. Karl Marx
In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. Karl Marx
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. Karl Marx
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains. Karl Marx
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production. Karl Marx
The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. Karl Marx
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism. Karl Marx
There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers. Karl Marx
Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. Karl Marx
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.