Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one. Karl Marx More Quotes by Karl Marx More Quotes From Karl Marx If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist. Karl Marx labourerscapitalistifs Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce. Karl Marx commercecapitalistdoe Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy. Karl Marx classmeanhands Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents. Karl Marx debtherowar Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church. Karl Marx churchkingshelping The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison. Karl Marx environmentaldonecivilization Merely quantitative differences, Karl Marx certaindifferencesknowledge The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed. Karl Marx riflesstylecitizens [Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself. Karl Marx swept-awayestablishment These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time. Karl Marx obstaclesindividualcapacity Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself. Karl Marx fashionflowermoving Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver. Karl Marx buying-goldsilvergold May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'. Karl Marx peacefuldevilmovement Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human. Karl Marx consciousnesslanguageneeds A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. Karl Marx incomepoliticswisdom It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves. Karl Marx differentnaturelaw Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena Karl Marx invisibleformessence It's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way. Karl Marx asslittlesway 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. Karl Marx cashmoneyearth The weapon of criticism can never replace the criticism of weapons. Karl Marx weaponscriticism
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