Der Philosoph legt sich – also selbst eine abstrakte Gestalt des entfremdeten Menschen – als den Maßstab der entfremdeten Welt an.
Paris Manuscripts (1844)

“The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage, in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy.”

Karl Marx

Vol. I, Ch. 31, pg. 827.
(Buch I) (1867)

“The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.”

Karl Marx

Vol. II, Ch. XX, p. 437.
(Buch II) (1893)

“Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same.”

Karl Marx

Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Source: Notebook I, The Chapter on Money, p. 85.

“Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without willing it or knowing it. The real point is not that each individual's pursuit of his private interest promotes the totality of private interests, the general interest. One could just as well deduce from this abstract phrase that each individual reciprocally blocks the assertion of the others' interests, so that, instead of a general affirmation, this war of all against all produces a general negation.”

Karl Marx

Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Source: Notebook I, The Chapter on Money, p. 76.

“The circulation of capital realizes value, while living labour creates value.”

Karl Marx

(1857/58)
Source: Notebook V, The Chapter on Capital, p. 463.

“The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material.”

Karl Marx

Vol. II, Ch. XV, p. 285.
(Buch II) (1893)

“What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.”

Karl Marx

Section 1, paragraph 53, lines 11-13.
The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)

“No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.”

Karl Marx

Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Source: Introduction, p. 12.

“In a constantly revolving circle every point is simultaneously a point of departure and a point of return. If we interrupt the rotation, not every point of departure is a point of return.”

Karl Marx

Vol. II, Ch. IV, p. 104.
(Buch II) (1893)

“Capital is money, capital is commodities. … By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.”

Karl Marx

Vol. I, Ch. 4, pp. 171–172
(Buch I) (1867)

“Lincoln’s place in the history of the United States and of mankind will, nevertheless, be next to that of Washington!”

Karl Marx

Comments on the North American Events (1862)

“An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.”

Karl Marx

Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Source: Notebook IV, The Chapter on Capital, p. 308.