Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Karl Marxwas a philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Born in Prussia to a middle-class family, he later studied political economy and Hegelian philosophy. As an adult, Marx became stateless and spent much of his life in London, England, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and published various works, the most well-known being the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto. His work has since influenced subsequent intellectual, economic, and political history...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth5 May 1818
CityTrier, Germany
CountryGermany
As capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer must grow worse.
All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.
Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
I am nothing but I must be everything.
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
It's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way.
The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.
In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.