Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Karl Marxwas a philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Born in Prussia to a middle-class family, he later studied political economy and Hegelian philosophy. As an adult, Marx became stateless and spent much of his life in London, England, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and published various works, the most well-known being the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto. His work has since influenced subsequent intellectual, economic, and political history...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth5 May 1818
CityTrier, Germany
CountryGermany
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The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
There is only one way to kill capitalism - by taxes, taxes, and more taxes.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'.
Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God.
Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.
[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.
Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.
As capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer must grow worse.