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
The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.
The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.
Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore violates the conditions necessary to lasting fertility of the soil. By this action it destroys at the same time the health of the town labourer and the intellectual life of the rural labourer.
Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.