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 religious world is but a reflex of the real world.
2 is a proletariat prime, but 4, 6 and 8 are also composite proletariats. Composites of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains!
Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.
The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs.
One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.
Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.
Usury lives in the pores of production, as it were, just as the gods of Epicurus lived in the space between the worlds.
The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.
There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.
Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.
Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.