Capital Quotes

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, ...

Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed...

All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the U...

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never h...

Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never ...

One of the curious things about our educational system, I would note, is that the better trained you...

This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of natu...

Barriers to accumulation are perpetually dissolving and re-forming around the issue of so-called nat...

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment o...

Capital is a result of labor and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the ...

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

The introduction of free competition is thus public declaration that from now on the members of soci...

A use-value, or useful article, therefore, has value only because abstract human labour is objectifi...

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 lab...

A use-value, or useful article, therefore, has value only because abstract human labour is objectifi...

And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in socie...

The sum of productive forces, capital funds and social forms of intercourse, which every individual ...

Machinery which is not used is not capital.

To say that "the worker has an interest in the rapid growth of capital", means only this: that the m...

I have had so many Dwellings, Nat, that I know these Streets as well as a strowling Beggar: I was bo...