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 More Quotes by Karl Marx More Quotes From Karl Marx Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that. Karl Marx revolution dictatorship political Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes. Karl Marx antagonism oppression class The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it. Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with there capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated. Karl Marx sprung-up sound mean ...it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be. Karl Marx conflict criticism littles The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor. Karl Marx creation-of-man men world There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience. Karl Marx government historical past Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. Karl Marx philosophical happiness life Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it Karl Marx property stupid made In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. Karl Marx individualism individuality independent In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred. Karl Marx sacred eye philosophy What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development of production; that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; and that dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society. Karl Marx historical struggle class ...the French Revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order. The revolutionary movement which began in 1789... gave rise to the communist idea which Babeuf's friend Buonarroti re-introduced in France after the Revolution of 1830. This idea, consistently developed, is the idea of the new world order. Karl Marx communication order ideas Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis. Karl Marx crisis cracks authority Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence. Karl Marx affair movement real 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 money: 1) private property for private property; 2) society for private property; 3) private property for society. But Christ is alienated God and alienated man. God has value only insofar as he represents Christ, and man has value only insofar as he represents Christ. It is the same with money. Karl Marx men ideas christ Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary. Karl Marx luxury opposites The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. Karl Marx brain history past Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat. Karl Marx communication change lying We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass. Karl Marx hours time men We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us. Karl Marx sells capitalist rope