Karl Marx Quotes

“Unlimited exploitation of cheap labour-power is the sole foundation of their power to compete.”

― Karl Marx, Das Kapital

topic:power

“As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.”

― Karl Marx, Das Kapital

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

― Karl Marx, Das Kapital

“Darwin has interested us in the history of Nature’s Technology, i.e., in the formation of the organs of plants and animals, which organs serve as instruments of production for sustaining life.”

― Karl Marx, Das Kapital

topic:nature

“But capitalist production begets, with the inexorability of a law of Nature, its own negation. It is the negation of negation.”

― Karl Marx, Das Kapital

topic:nature

“Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.”

― Karl Marx, Das Kapital

topic:change society

“The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.”

― Karl Marx, Das Kapital

topic:future

“Hence Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the labourer, unless under compulsion from society.”

― Karl Marx, Das Kapital

topic:society

“Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.”

― Karl Marx, Das Kapital

topic:work

“gold and silver . . . are . . . the direct incarnation of all human labour. Hence the magic of money.”

― Karl Marx, Das Kapital

topic:work money

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