Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker. Karl Marx More Quotes by Karl Marx More Quotes From Karl Marx The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley of ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment. Karl Marx selfmenhands Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale even in foreign countries, so that titles to property are exportable, although the railway itself is not. Karl Marx titlescountryhands The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together. Karl Marx division-of-laborcompetitiontogether Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God. Karl Marx existence-of-godexistencematerials I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history. Karl Marx machinesbook There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand, there have started into life industrial and scientific forces which no epoch of former human history had ever suspected. On the other hand, there exist symptoms of decay, far surpassing the horrors recorded of the latter times of the Roman empire. In our days everything seems pregnant with its contrary. Karl Marx decaypartyhands Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man? Karl Marx incomedoemen The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object. Karl Marx objectsworkerswork The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production. Karl Marx scientisttimescience It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends. Karl Marx usemenmean The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent. Karl Marx aimmotiveends Price, taken by itself, is nothing but the monetary expression of value. Karl Marx monetarytakenexpression What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist. This is so much the case that I do not know whether by the English Law, but certainly by some Continental Laws, the maximum time is fixed for which a man is allowed to sell his laboring power. If allowed to do so for any indefinite period whatever, slavery would be immediately restored. Such a sale, if it comprised his lifetime, for example, would make him at once the lifelong slave of his employer. Karl Marx lawworkmen By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of the private capitalists and usurers. But at the same time, banking and credit become the most effective means of driving captialist production beyond its own limits and one of the most effective vehicles of crises and swindle. Karl Marx takenmeanhands The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. Karl Marx bourgeoisieaffaircommon ...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy. Karl Marx communicationwinningclass You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a change in society but also to change yourselves, and prepare yourselves for the exercise of political power. Karl Marx communicationstrugglewar Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. Karl Marx philosophicalconsciousnessfreedom ...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts itself over the general. Every demand for the most simple bourgeois financial reform, for the most ordinary liberalism, for the most commonplace republicanism, for the flattest democracy is forthwith punished as an assault upon society and is branded as Socialism. Karl Marx circlessimpleclass The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future. Karl Marx showscountry
