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 bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.
Men make their own history
The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.
Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones.
Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.
The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.
In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
The workers have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to gain. Workers of the world, unite.