“The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.” |
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. |
A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism. |
A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism. |
All I know is I'm not a Marxist. |
All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force. |
All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth. |
American politics consist of two bands of baron robbers, alternately taking possession of and plundering the treasury of the state. |
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. |
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time |
As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality. |
But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade |
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. |
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. |
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society |