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The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, i.e. is compelled by social conditions, to sell the whole of his act...more

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Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren't his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he's lucky, he might get pai...more

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Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

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In reality, the laborer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital. His economic bondage is both brought about and concealed by the peri...more

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Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various way; the point, however, is to change it

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Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it

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The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himse...more

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But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and push...more

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The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the ...more

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The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the m...more

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The bourgeois during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding genera...more

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It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistic...more

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...it happens that "society is saved" as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts itself ove...more

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The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time i...more

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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 ...more