Karl Marx idézet

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„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.”

“So far as living instruments of labour are concerned, for instance horses, their reproduction is timed by nature itself. Their average lifetime as instruments of labour is determined by the laws of nature. As soon as this term has expired they must be replaced by new ones. A horse cannot be replaced piecemeal; it must be replaced by another horse.”

“It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating."”

“These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time.”

“The worker's existence is thus brought under the same condition as the existence of every other commodity. The worker has become a commodity, and it is a bit of luck for him if he can find a buyer, And the demand on which the life of the worker depends, depends on the whim of the rich and the capitalists.”

“The South has conquered nothing — but a graveyard.”

“If we were to hang the last capitalist, another would appear to sell us the rope.”

“As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone.”

“Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.”

“As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.”

“Something that is merely negative creates nothing.”

“Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity”

“It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.”

“Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets!”

“The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The unity is brought about by force.”