"Capital is dead labor that vampirelike lives only by sucking living labor and lives the more the more labor it suck.












More Karl Marx quotes
"The introduction of free competition is thus public declaration that from now on the members of society are unequal only to the extent that their capi...
"In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of pr...
"A use-value, or useful article, therefore, has value only because abstract human labour is objectified or materialized in it. How, then, is the magnit...
"As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.
"What exclusively determines the magnitude of the value of any article is therefore the amount of labour socially necessary, or the labour-time sociall...
"A use-value, or useful article, therefore, has value only because abstract human labour is objectified or materialized in it. How, then, is the magnit...
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"Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man.Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of ...
"And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society and to impose its conditions of existence upon ...
"The sum of productive forces, capital funds and social forms of intercourse, which every individual and generation finds in existence as something giv...
"Or how does it happen that trade, which after all is nothing more than the exchange of products of various individuals and countries, rules the whole ...
"Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudali...
"By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make that labouring power during the whole day or week...
"The cry for an equality of wages rests, therefore, upon a mistake is an inane wish never to be fulfilled. It is an offspring of that false and superfi...