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
A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.
Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God.
May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'.
Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
Follow your own path, no matter what people say.
[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.
I am a machine condemned to devour books.
It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.
Communism begins where atheism begins...
The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.
There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.
The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself.