...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Karl Marx More Quotes by Karl Marx More Quotes From Karl Marx All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force. Karl Marx invention force intellectual Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences. Karl Marx difficult Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science. Karl Marx time men science If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction. Karl Marx reproduction form ifs The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism Karl Marx criticism-of-religion criticism Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. Karl Marx able mean world When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence. Karl Marx pace people ideas In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital. Karl Marx labourers reality Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure. Karl Marx labour natural ...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required. Karl Marx compulsion realms doe Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself. Karl Marx doe men long Religion is the balm of the people. Karl Marx people But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation. Karl Marx negation capitalist law There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities. Karl Marx commodity different relation If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin. Karl Marx skins suffering looks Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels. Karl Marx rebel uprising india Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect. Karl Marx effort growth exercise Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life. Karl Marx determined consciousness life Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle. Karl Marx horse doctors law Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation. Karl Marx dancer civilization museums
