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Karl Marx
Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)
Political philosopher , political economist , and social theorist
- Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.
- History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.
- Die Heilige Familie, 1845
- "The proletarians of the world have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workers of all countries: Unite!"
- Source: The Communist Manifesto
- "Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones."
- Source: The Communist Manifesto
- "It [the bourgeosis] 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'."
- Source: The Communist Manifesto
- "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it"
- Source: Theses on Feuerbach, thesis 11.
- "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."
- Source: Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
- "A spectre is haunting Europe; the spectre of Communism."
- Source: Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
- "A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality."
- Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, volume I, chapter 7.
- "Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."
- Source: Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's "Philosophy of Right"
- "Hegel remarks somewhere that history tends to repeat itself. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."
- Source: The Eighteenth Brumiare of Louis Bonaparte
- "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."
- Source: The Criticism of the Gotha Program 1875
- "The battle of competition is fought by the cheapening of commodities"
- Source: Capital, Part II" Chap. 10
- "What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable."
- "Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past."
- Source: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon [1]
"I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.
- "Very well then! Emancipation from huckstering and money, consequently from practical, real Judaism, would be the self-emancipation of our time.
- "An organization of society [such as communism] which would abolish the preconditions for huckstering, and therefore the possibility of huckstering, would make [this] Jew impossible. His religious consciousness would be dissipated like a thin haze in the real, vital air of society. On the other hand, if the Jew recognizes that this practical nature of his is futile and works to abolish it, he extricates himself from his previous development and works for human emancipation as such and turns against the supreme practical expression of human self-estrangement."
- "You will!"
- Apocryphal retort to a heckler asking who would clean the floors after the revolution.
- "I am not a Marxist." For context see [2]
- "Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."
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