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
One capitalist always kills many.
The will of the capitalist is certainly to take as much as possible. What we have to do is not to talk about his will, but to enquire about his power, the limits of that power, and the character of those limits.
But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.
We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us.
So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.
It is not "history" which uses men as a means of achieving -- as if it were an individual person -- its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
It is not ""history"" which uses men as a means of achieving -- as if it were an individual person -- its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
Religion is the sign of the oppressed... It is the opium of the people.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
When we bought this house, we designated this room the library,
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs
History always repeats itself twice: first time as tragedy, second time as farce.
Fascism in power is the open, terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, the most chauvinistic, the most imperialistic elements of finance capitalism.