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“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

Vol. I, Ch. 13: "Machinery and Big Industry".
(Buch I) (1867)

Life , Nature

“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

Vol. I, Ch. 2, pg. 99.
(Buch I) (1867)

Money

“man's heart is a wonderful thing, especially when carried in the purse”

Karl Marx book Das Kapital

Vol. I, Ch. 9, pg. 252.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)

Heart

“One capitalist always kills many.”

Karl Marx

Vol. I, Ch. 32, p. 836.
(Buch I) (1867)

“A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children.”

Karl Marx

Vol. I, Ch. 31, pg. 829.
(Buch I) (1867)

Children , Birth , Appearance

“The unity is brought about by force.”

Karl Marx

Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Source: Notebook I, The Chapter on Money, p. 70.

“Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew — not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. … What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money… Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man — and turns them into commodities. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.”

Karl Marx book On the Jewish Question

On the Jewish Question (1843)

Money , God , Religion

“The philosopher, who is himself an abstract form of alienated man, sets himself up as the measure of the alienated world.”

Karl Marx book Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

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

World

“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)

Appearance

“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.

Money , Nature

“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.

War

“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)

Victory

“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)

Departure

“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)

Money

“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)

History

“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.