I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history. Karl Marx More Quotes by Karl Marx More Quotes From Karl Marx Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld dominationis immutable. Karl Marx tacticsrussiamay The unity is brought about by force . Karl Marx unityforce In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety. Karl Marx safetygoldfall Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. Karl Marx goldeneggsmoney History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes. Karl Marx fightingrealmean The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win. Karl Marx unitingwinningworld Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses Karl Marx junkemptydata Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity. Karl Marx lastsgoes-onwriting The labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself. Karl Marx commoditylonghands Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution. Karl Marx communist-manifestocommunismcommunication Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life. Karl Marx holy-grailgoldhair Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones. Karl Marx agitationbourgeoisiecommunist-manifesto I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself. Karl Marx something-newreaderthinking Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people. Karl Marx opiatespeoplereligion Usury lives in the pores of production, as it were, just as the gods of Epicurus lived in the space between the worlds. Karl Marx usuryspaceworld No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need. Karl Marx consumptionproductionsneeds Nature is man's inorganic body -- that is to say, nature insofar as it is not the human body. Man lives from nature -- i.e., nature is his body -- and he must maintain a continuing dialogue with it is he is not to die. To say that man's physical and mental life is linked to nature simply means that nature is linked to itself, for man is a part of nature. Karl Marx bodymenmean Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of exchange. But it cannot be its own or its own standard of comparison. Karl Marx oxencommoditystandards As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and with how they produce. The nature of individuals thus depends on the material conditions determining their production. Karl Marx individualproducematerials The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction Karl Marx germanydestructionfirsts
