We cannot tell by looking at the diamond that it is a commodity. When it serves as a use-value, asthetic or mechanical, on the breast of a harlot, or in the hand of a glasscutter, it is a diamond and not a commodity. Karl Marx More Quotes by Karl Marx More Quotes From Karl Marx The religious world is but a reflex of the real world. Karl Marx real religious world Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it. Karl Marx study philosophy world Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer. Karl Marx soil technology together Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same. Karl Marx conventions states doe Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation. Karl Marx projects tasks matter All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided. Karl Marx essence appearance would-be The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker. Karl Marx workers powerful work Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters. Karl Marx magic eye believe The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar. Karl Marx bourgeoisie bricks-and-mortar battle History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy. Karl Marx numbers men people [The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose truth we are wholly convinced, one that offers us largest scope in working for humanity and approaching that general goal towards which each profession offers only one of the means: the goal of perfection ... If he works only for himself he can become a famous scholar, a great sage, an excellent imaginative writer [ Dichter ], but never a perfected, a truly great man. Karl Marx careers men mean The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest. Karl Marx violent passion mean Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other. Karl Marx bourgeoisie class two England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia... When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch... and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain. Karl Marx progress skulls idols The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed. Karl Marx employed commodity labor If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs. Karl Marx wigs left stills The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. Karl Marx circles political philosophy A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children. Karl Marx yesterday children blood A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the Party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries? Karl Marx police party europe A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production. Karl Marx relative-value greatness substance
