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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In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.
The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.
The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.
Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.
Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.
There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition).
When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.
Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.
All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.
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.
The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.