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“It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only momentarily, and at that always only as the harbinger of a coming crisis.”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

“Is that to say we are against Free Trade? No, we are for Free Trade, because by Free Trade all economical laws, with their most astounding contradictions, will act upon a larger scale, upon the territory of the whole earth; and because from the uniting of all these contradictions in a single group, where they will stand face to face, will result the struggle which will itself eventuate in the emancipation of the proletariat.”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

“Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests.”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

“The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.”

Karl Marx book Das Kapital

“Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones.”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

“Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

“The way to Hell is paved with good intentions, and he might just as easily have intended to make money, without producing at all.”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

“b>[T]he very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

“There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

“Every commodity is compelled to chose some other commodity for its equivalent.”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

“In capitalist society however where social reason always asserts itself only post festum great disturbances may and must constantly occur.”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

“Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be measured precisely by the social position of the fair sex (plain ones included).”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

“For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a shepherd, or a critical critic and must remain so if he does not wish to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, to fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have in mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

“Since property here exists in the form of stock, its movement and transfer become purely a result of gambling on the stock exchange, where the little fish are swallowed by the sharks and the lambs by the stock exchange wolves.”

Karl Marx book Das Kapital

“But capitalist production begets, with the inexorability of a law of Nature, its own negation. It is the negation of negation.”

Karl Marx book Das Kapital

“Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth, it buys as long as it has the means to buy.”

Karl Marx book Das Kapital

“The law of gravity thus asserts itself when a house falls about our ears.”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

“Technology discloses the active relation of man towards nature, as well as the direct process of production of his very life, and thereby the process of production of his basic societal relations, of his own mentality, and his images of society, too.”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

“Money is a crystal formed of necessity in the course of the exchanges, whereby different products of labour are practically equated to one another and thus by practice converted into commodities.”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist