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
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena
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.
The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.
Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital , in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit .
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.
Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.
Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.
It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.