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
Constant revolutionizing of production distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
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 wealthy man is the man whois much, not the one who has much
The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.
The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got
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 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.
The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.