Karl Marx idézet

oldal 10

„A filozófusok a világot csak különbözőképpen értelmezték; a feladat az, hogy megváltoztassuk.”

„A dolgok világának értékesedésével egyenes arányban nő az emberek világának elértéktelenedése.”

„Minden eddigi társadalom története osztályharcok története.”

„A tőke olyan holt munka, amely vámpír módjára csakis az élő munka erejének kiszivásából él, és minél több munkát szív magába, annál jobban él!”

„A munkás beleteszi az életét a tárgyba; de az immár nem az övé, hanem a tárgyé.”

„Valamennyi osztály közül, amely napjainkban a burzsoáziával szemben áll, csakis a proletariátus valóban forradalmi osztály. A többi osztály a nagyipar kifejlődésével lezüllik és elpusztul, a proletariátus a nagyipar legsajátabb terméke.”

„Amint láttuk, minden eddigi társadalom az elnyomó és elnyomott osztályok ellentétén nyugodott. De ahhoz, hogy valamely osztályt el lehessen nyomni, biztosítani kell számára azokat a feltételeket, amelyek közt legalább szolgai létét tengetheti.”

„…a jogi viszonyok és az államformák nem érthetők meg sem önmagukból, sem az emberi szellem úgynevezett általános fejlődéséből, hanem ellenkezőleg, azokban az anyagi életviszonyokban gyökereznek, amelyeknek összességét Hegel… »polgári társadalom« néven foglalja össze, a polgári társadalom anatómiáját pedig a a politikai gazdaságtanban kell keresni.”

„Kísértet járja be Európát – a kommunizmus kísértete. Szent hajszára szövetkezett e kísértet ellen a régi Európának minden hatalma: a pápa és a cár, Metternich és Guizot, francia radikálisok és német rendőrök.”

„A kommunisták nem titkolják nézeteiket és szándékaikat. Nyíltan kijelentik, hogy céljaik csakis minden eddigi társadalmi rend erőszakos megdöntésével érhetők el. Reszkessenek az uralkodó osztályok egy kommunista forradalomtól. A proletárok e forradalomban csak láncaikat veszíthetik. Cserébe egy egész világot nyerhetnek.”

„Hegel megjegyzi valahol, hogy minden nagy világtörténelmi tény és személy úgyszólván kétszer kerül színre. Elfeledte hozzáfűzni: egyszer mint tragédia, másszor mint bohózat.”

“Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.”

“The criticism of religion ends with the doctrine that man is the supreme being for man, hence the categorical imperative to overthrow all those conditions in which man is degraded, enslaved, neglected, contemptible being—conditions which can hardly be better described than in the exclamation of a Frenchman on the occasion of a proposed tax upon dogs: 'Wretched dogs! They want to treat you like men!'”

“The weapon of criticism obviously cannot replace the criticism of weapons. Material force can only be overthrown by material force, but theory itself becomes a material force when it has gripped the masses. Theory is capable of gripping the masses when it demonstrates ad hominem, and it demonstrates ad hominem, when it becomes radical. To be radical is to grasp things by the root, but for man the root is man himself. The clear proof of the radicalism of German theory, and hence of its political energy, is that it proceeds from the decisive positive abolition of religion.”

“Ramsgate is full of Jews and fleas.”

“The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere.”

“The executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.”

“The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers.”

“Thus heaven I’ve forfeited, I know it full well. My soul, once true to God, is chosen for hell.”

“The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man.”

“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.”

“These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.”

“It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the spectre of Communism with a Manifesto of the party itself.”

“Capital is money: Capital is commodities. […] For the movement, in the course of which it adds surplus-value, is its own movement, its expansion, therefore, is automatic expansion. Because it is value, it has acquired the occult quality of being able to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.”

“Considering the optimistic turn taken by world trade AT THIS MOMENT…it is some consolation at least that the revolution has begun in Russia, for I regard the convocation of 'notables' to Petersburg as such a beginning. … [O]n the Continent revolution is imminent and will, moreover, instantly assume a socialist character.”

“What do you think of the aspect of the money market? … This time, by the by, the thing has assumed European dimensions such as have never been seen before, and I don't suppose we'll be able to spend much longer here merely as spectators. The very fact that I've at last got round to setting up house again and sending for my books seems to me to prove that the 'mobilisation' of our persons is AT HAND.”

“Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way. But can there be anything more puerile, more short-sighted, than the views of those Economists who believe in all earnest that this woeful transitory state means nothing but adapting society to the acquisitive propensities of capitalists, both landlords and money-lords?”

“And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the intervention, direct or indirect, of society, by means of schools, etc.? The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.”

“The immediate aim of the Communists is the same as that of all the other proletarian parties: Formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat.”

“Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.”