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
In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims.
Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded.
Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.
Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.
Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld dominationis immutable.
One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.
But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything.
The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.
One capitalist always kills many.
Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.
I am nothing and should be everything.
I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.
When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.
Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The increase in the quantity of objects is therefore accompanied by an extension of the realm of the alien powers to which man is subjected, and every new product represents a new potentiality of mutual swindling and mutual plundering.