When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder. Karl Marx More Quotes by Karl Marx More Quotes From Karl Marx Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. Karl Marx farcehistoricaltragedy The wealthy man is the man whois much, not the one who has much Karl Marx he-maninspirationmen ...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 communicationpoliticalorder Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. Karl Marx vampiredivision-of-laborghouls Men make their own history Karl Marx communist-manifestomenhistory The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial. Karl Marx communistloveneeds Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore violates the conditions necessary to lasting fertility of the soil. By this action it destroys at the same time the health of the town labourer and the intellectual life of the rural labourer. Karl Marx fertilityintellectualmen The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery. Karl Marx slaveryexistencestates So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development in which the Jews have zealously co-operated. And this evil anti-social aspect of Jewry has grown to a stage at which: it must necessarily collapse. Karl Marx developmenthistoricalevil Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the conflict between existence and essence, objectification and self-affirmation, freedom and necessity, individual and species. It is the riddle of history solved and knows itself as the solution. Karl Marx essenceselfmen To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire. Karl Marx empiresgunfirsts The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. Karl Marx intellectualclassideas Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible. Karl Marx individualcommunitymean We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done by social development, in which education must play a part. Karl Marx developmentdoneplay Misery motivates, not utopia. Karl Marx miseryatheismfear Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of the spiritless condition. It is the opium of the people. Karl Marx realreligiousheart I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above. Karl Marx atheismwish Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it. Karl Marx magnificentlazycalifornia The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. About Russia Karl Marx tacticsrussiastars What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable. Karl Marx bourgeoisievictoryfall
