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| 2 | `Karl Marx`,`1846 Letter to Annenkov (1846)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1846/letters/46_12_28.htm`,`The productive forces are the result of man’s practical energy, but that energy is in turn circumscribed by the conditions in which man is placed by the productive forces already acquired, by the form of society which exists before him, which he does not create, which is the product of the preceding generation.` |
| 3 | `Karl Marx`,`Afterword to the Second German Edition of Capital (1873)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p3.htm`,`My dialectic method is not only different from the Hegelian, but is its direct opposite. .... With him it is standing on its head. It must be turned right side up again, if you would discover the rational kernel within the mystical shell.` |
| 4 | `Karl Marx`,`Afterword to the Second German Edition of Capital (1873)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p3.htm`,`Of course the method of presentation must differ in form from that of inquiry. The latter has to appropriate the material in detail, to analyse its different forms of development, to trace out their inner connexion. Only after this work is done, can the actual movement be adequately described. If this is done successfully, if the life of the subject-matter is ideally reflected as in a mirror, then it may appear as if we had before us a mere a priori construction.` |
| 5 | `Karl Marx`,`Afterword to the Second German Edition of Capital (1873)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p3.htm`,`Political Economy can remain a science only so long as the class-struggle is latent or manifests itself only in isolated and sporadic phenomena. ... In France and in England the bourgeoisie had conquered political power. Thenceforth, the class-struggle, practically as well as theoretically, took on more and more outspoken and threatening forms. It sounded the knell of scientific bourgeois economy. It was thenceforth no longer a question, whether this theorem or that was true, but whether it was useful to capital or harmful, expedient or inexpedient, politically dangerous or not. In place of disinterested inquirers, there were hired prize fighters; in place of genuine scientific research, the bad conscience and the evil intent of apologetic.` |
| 6 | `Karl Marx`,`Class Struggle in France (1850)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1850/class-struggles-france/index.htm`,`The revolution made progress, not by its immediate tragicomic achievements but by the creation of a powerful, united counter-revolution, an opponent in combat with whom the party of overthrow ripened into a really revolutionary party.` |
| 7 | `Karl Marx`,`Class Struggle in France (1850)`,`https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/hist-mat/class-sf/ch03.htm`,`Revolutions are the locomotives of history.` |
| 8 | `Karl Marx`,`Comment on James Mill (1844)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/james-mill/index.htm#078`,`Our mutual value is for us the value of our mutual objects.Hence for us man himself is mutually of no value.` |
| 9 | `Karl Marx`,`Comment on James Mill (1844)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/james-mill/index.htm#078`,`The only intelligible language in which we converse with one another consists of our objects in their relation to each other. We would not understand a human language and it would remain without effect. By one side it would be recognised and felt as being a request, an entreaty, and therefore a humiliation` |
| 10 | `Karl Marx`,`Confidential Communication on Bakunin (1870)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1870/03/28.htm`,`The English have at their disposal all necessary material preconditions for a social revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary passion. Only the General Council [of the International] can provide them with this, and thus accelerate a truly revolutionary movement here and, in consequence, everywhere.` |
| 11 | `Karl Marx`,`Critical Notes on the Article ‘The King of Prussia and Social Reform. By a Prussian’ (1844)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/08/07.htm`,`The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities` |
| 12 | `Karl Marx`,`Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy in General (1844)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/hegel.htm#44H12`,`Man is directly a natural being. As a natural being and as a living natural being he is on the one hand endowed with natural powers, vital powers — he is an active natural being. These forces exist in him as tendencies and abilities — as instincts. On the other hand, as a natural, corporeal, sensuous objective being he is a suffering, conditioned and limited creature, like animals and plants.` |
| 13 | `Karl Marx`,`Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (1843)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/ch02.htm`,`All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy.` |
| 14 | `Karl Marx`,`Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/ch03.htm#027`,`The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.` |
| 15 | `Karl Marx`,`Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/ch05.htm#051`,`This is a kind of mutual reconciliation society... Actual extremes cannot be mediated with each other precisely because they are actual extremes. But neither are they in need of mediation, because they are opposed in essence.` |
| 16 | `Karl Marx`,`Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843)`,`https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/ch03.htm`,`The bureaucrat has the world as a mere object of his action.` |
| 17 | `Karl Marx`,`Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right. Introduction (1843)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/intro.htm#05`,`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.` |
| 18 | `Karl Marx`,`Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right. Introduction (1843)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/intro.htm#32`,`The weapon of criticism cannot, of course, replace criticism of the weapon, material force must be overthrown by material force; buttheory also becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses.Theory is capable of gripping the masses as soon as it demonstrates ad hominem, and it demonstrates ad hominem as soon as it becomes radical. To be radical is to grasp the root of the matter. But, for man, the root is man himself.` |
| 19 | `Karl Marx`,`Critique of the Gotha Program (1875)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch01.htm`,`... defects are inevitable in the first phase of communist society as it is when it has just emerged after prolonged birth pangs from capitalist society. Right can never be higher than the economic structure of society and its cultural development conditioned thereby.` |
| 20 | `Karl Marx`,`Critique of the Gotha Program (1875)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch01.htm`,`In a higher phase of communist society, ... — only then then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!` |
| 21 | `Karl Marx`,`Critique of the Gotha Program (1875)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch01.htm`,`It is altogether self-evident that, to be able to fight at all, the working class must organize itself at home as a class and that its own country is the immediate arena of its struggle — insofar as its class struggle is national, not in substance, but, as the Communist Manifesto says, ‘in form’.` |
| 22 | `Karl Marx`,`Critique of the Gotha Program (1875)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch04.htm`,`Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.` |
| 23 | `Karl Marx`,`Doctoral Thesis, Appendix (1841)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1841/dr-theses/appendix.htm`,`Real talers have the same existence that the imagined gods have. Has a real taler any existence except in the imagination, if only in the general or rather common imagination of man? Bring paper money into a country where this use of paper is unknown, and everyone will laugh at your subjective imagination.` |
| 24 | `Karl Marx`,`Doctoral Thesis, Chapter 1 (1841)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1841/dr-theses/ch01.htm`,`Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.` |
| 25 | `Karl Marx`,`Editorial in Final edition of Neue Rheinische Zeitung (1849)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1849/05/19c.htm#terror`,`We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror. But the royal terrorists, the terrorists by the grace of God and the law, are in practice brutal, disdainful, and mean, in theory cowardly, secretive, and deceitful, and in both respects disreputable..` |
| 26 | `Karl Marx`,`Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ch01.htm`,`Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.` |
| 27 | `Karl Marx`,`Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ch01.htm`,`Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.The tradition of all dead generations weighs like an nightmare on the brains of the living.` |
| 28 | `Karl Marx`,`Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ch07.htm#s1`,`the great mass of the French nation is formed by the simple addition of homologous magnitudes, much as potatoes in a sack form a sack of potatoes.` |
| 29 | `Karl Marx`,`Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ch07.htm#staterev`,`But the revolution is thoroughgoing. It is still traveling through purgatory. It does its work methodically. ... And when it has accomplished this second half of its preliminary work, Europe will leap from its seat and exult: Well burrowed, old mole!` |
| 30 | `Karl Marx`,`Human Needs & the division of Labour (1844)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/needs.htm`,`Do I obey economic laws if I extract money by offering my body for sale,... — Then the political economist replies to me: You do not transgress my laws; but see what Cousin Ethics and Cousin Religion have to say about it. My political economic ethics and religion have nothing to reproach you with, but — But whom am I now to believe, political economy or ethics? — The ethics of political economy is acquisition, work, thrift, sobriety — but political economy promises to satisfy my needs. ... It stems from the very nature of estrangement that each sphere applies to me a different and opposite yardstick — ethics one and political economy another; for each is a specific estrangement of man and focuses attention on a particular field of estranged essential activity, and each stands in an estranged relation to the other.` |
| 31 | `Karl Marx`,`Human Needs & the division of Labour (1844)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/needs.htm`,`When communist artisans associate with one another, theory, propaganda, etc., is their first end. But at the same time, as a result of this association, they acquire a new need — the need for society — and what appears as a means becomes an end. ... the brotherhood of man is no mere phrase with them, but a fact of life, and the nobility of man shines upon us from their work-hardened bodies.` |
| 32 | `Karl Marx`,`Human Requirements and Division of Labour (1844)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/needs.htm`,`In general it is always empirical businessmen we are talking about when we refer to political economists, (who represent) their scientific creed and form of existence.` |
| 33 | `Karl Marx`,`Human Requirements and Division of Labour (1844)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/needs.htm`,`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.` |
| 34 | `Karl Marx`,`Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/intro.htm`,`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.` |
| 35 | `Karl Marx`,`Letter from the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher (1843)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/letters/43_09.htm#criticism`,`But, if constructing the future and settling everything for all times are not our affair, it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be.` |
| 36 | `Karl Marx`,`Letter from the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher to Ruge (1843)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/letters/43_09.htm#p144`,`Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.` |
| 37 | `Karl Marx`,`Letter from the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher to Ruge (1843)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/letters/43_09.htm#p144`,`We develop new principles for the world out of the world’s own principles. We do not say to the world: Cease your struggles, they are foolish; we will give you the true slogan of struggle. We merely show the world what it is really fighting for, and consciousness is something that it has to acquire, even if it does not want to.` |
| 38 | `Karl Marx`,`Letter to Blos (1877)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/letters/77_11_10.htm`,`Neither of us cares a straw for popularity. Let me cite one proof of this: such was my aversion to the personality cult that at the time of the International, when plagued by numerous moves – originating from various countries – to accord me public honour, I never allowed one of these to enter the domain of publicity, nor did I ever reply to them, save with an occasional snub. When Engels and I first joined the secret communist society, we did so only on condition that anything conducive to a superstitious belief in authority be eliminated from the Rules.` |
| 39 | `Karl Marx`,`Letter to Bracke (1875)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/letters/75_05_05.htm`,`Every step of real movement is more important than a dozen programmes.` |
| 40 | `Karl Marx`,`Letter to Bracke (In Brunswick) (1875)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/letters/75_05_05.htm`,`Every step of real movement is more important than a dozen programmes.` |
| 41 | `Karl Marx`,`Letter to His Father (1837)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1837-pre/letters/37_11_10.htm`,`History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.` |
| 42 | `Karl Marx`,`Letter to His Father (1837)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1837-pre/letters/37_11_10.htm`,`If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people.` |
| 43 | `Karl Marx`,`Letter to Kugelmann (1866)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1866/letters/66_08_23.htm`,`I do not think I shall be able to deliver the manuscript of the first volume to Hamburg before October. ... I cannot go to Geneva. I consider that what I am doing through this work is far more important for the working class than anything I might be able to do personally at any Congress.` |
| 44 | `Karl Marx`,`Letter to Kugelmann (1868)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1868/letters/68_12_12.htm`,`Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be measured precisely by the social position of the fair sex (plain ones included).` |
| 45 | `Karl Marx`,`Letter To Vera Zasulich (1881)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1881/03/zasulich1.htm#7`,`To save the Russian commune, a Russian revolution is needed.` |
| 46 | `Karl Marx`,`Letter to Weydemeyer (1852)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/letters/52_03_05-ab.htm`,`And now as to myself, no credit is due to me for discovering the existence of classes in modern society or the struggle between them. Long before me bourgeois historians had described the historical development of this class struggle and bourgeois economists, the economic anatomy of classes. What I did that was new was to prove:(1) that the existence of classes is only bound up with the particular, historical phases in the development of production,(2) that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat,(3) that this dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.` |
| 47 | `Karl Marx`,`Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy, 1839)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1839/notebook/ch06.htm`,`As Prometheus, having stolen fire from heaven, begins to build houses and to settle upon the earth, so philosophy, expanded to be the whole world, turns against the world of appearance. The same now with the philosophy of Hegel.` |
| 48 | `Karl Marx`,`On Social Relations in Russia (1874)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1874/refugee-literature/ch05.htm`,`The bourgeoisie is just as necessary a precondition for the socialist revolution as is the proletariat itself.` |
| 49 | `Karl Marx`,`On the Thefts of Wood, in Rheinische Zeitung (1842)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1842/10/25.htm`,`The representation of private interests ... abolishes all natural and spiritual distinctions by enthroning in their stead the immoral, irrational and soulless abstraction of a particular material object and a particular consciousness which is slavishly subordinated to this object.` |
| 50 | `Karl Marx`,`Poverty of Philosophy (1847)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/ch02e.htm#3b`,`The working class, in the course of its development, will substitute for the old civil society an association which will exclude classes and their antagonism, and there will be no more political power properly so-called, since political power is precisely the official expression of antagonism in civil society.` |
| 51 | `Karl Marx`,`Poverty of Philosophy (1847)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/ch02e.htm`,`Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalist to quell the revolt of specialized labor.` |
| 52 | `Karl Marx`,`Poverty of Philosophy (1847)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/ch02.htm#a1`,`But in the measure that history moves forward, and with it the struggle of the proletariat assumes clearer outlines, they no longer need to seek science in their minds; they have only to take note of what is happening before their eyes and to become its mouthpiece. So long as they look for science and merely make systems, so long as they are at the beginning of the struggle, they see in poverty nothing but poverty, without seeing in it the revolutionary, subversive side, which will overthrow the old society. From this moment, science, which is a product of the historical movement, has associated itself consciously with it, has ceased to be doctrinaire and has become revolutionary.` |
| 53 | `Karl Marx`,`Poverty of Philosophy (1847)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/ch02.htm#s1`,`Economists explain how production takes place in the above-mentioned relations, but what they do not explain is how these relations themselves are produced, that is, the historical movement which gave them birth. M. Proudhon, taking these relations for principles, categories, has merely to put into order these thoughts.` |
| 54 | `Karl Marx`,`Poverty of Philosophy (1847)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/ch02.htm#s2`,`The hand-mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-mill society with the industrial capitalist.` |
| 55 | `Karl Marx`,`Preface of A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/preface-abs.htm`,`The mode of production of material life conditions the social, political and intellectual life process in general. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.` |
| 56 | `Karl Marx`,`Preface to First German Edition of Capital (1867)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p1.htm#1b`,`The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.` |
| 57 | `Karl Marx`,`Preface to First German Edition of Capital (1867)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p1.htm`,`here individuals are dealt with only in so far as they are the personifications of economic categories, embodiments of particular class-relations and class-interests. My standpoint, from which the evolution of the economic formation of society is viewed as a process of natural history, can less than any other make the individual responsible for relations whose creature he socially remains, however much he may subjectively raise himself above them.` |
| 58 | `Karl Marx`,`Preface to the Critique of Political Economy (1859)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/appx1.htm#p211`,`There is in every social formation a particular branch of production which determines the position and importance of all the others, and the relations obtaining in this branch accordingly determine the relations of all other branches as well. It is as though light of a particular hue were cast upon everything, tingeing all other colours and modifying their specific features.` |
| 59 | `Karl Marx`,`Preface to the Critique of Political Economy (1859)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/preface.htm`,`In the year 1842-43, as editor of the Rheinische Zeitung, I first found myself in the embarrassing position of having to discuss what is known as material interests. ... the debates on free trade and protective tariffs caused me in the first instance to turn my attention to economic questions. ... When the publishers of the Rheinische Zeitung conceived the illusion that by a more compliant policy on the part of the paper it might be possible to secure the abrogation of the death sentence passed upon it, I eagerly grasped the opportunity to withdraw from the public stage to my study.` |
| 60 | `Karl Marx`,`Preface to the Critique of Political Economy (1859)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/preface.htm`,`No social order is ever destroyed before all the productive forces for which it is sufficient have been developed, and new superior relations of production never replace older ones before the material conditions for their existence have matured within the framework of the old society. Mankind thus inevitably sets itself only such tasks as it is able to solve, since closer examination will always show that the problem itself arises only when the material conditions for its solution are already present or at least in the course of formation.` |
| 61 | `Karl Marx`,`Preface to the Critique of Political Economy (1859)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/preface.htm`,`The mode of production of material life conditions the social, political and intellectual life process in general. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.` |
| 62 | `Karl Marx`,`Private Property and Communism (1844)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm#44CC4`,`Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.` |
| 63 | `Karl Marx`,`Private Property and Communism (1844)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm#44CC4`,`The entire movement of history, as simply communism’s actual act of genesis — the birth act of its empirical existence — is, therefore, for its thinking consciousness the comprehended and known process of its becoming.` |
| 64 | `Karl Marx`,`Private Property and Communism (1844)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm#44CC8`,`Natural science has invaded and transformed human life all the more practically through the medium of industry; and has prepared human emancipation, although its immediate effect had to be the furthering of the dehumanisation of man. Industry is the actual, historical relationship of nature, .... estranged form, is true anthropological nature.>` |
| 65 | `Karl Marx`,`Private Property and Communism (1844)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm#44CC8`,`Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.` |
| 66 | `Karl Marx`,`Private Property and Communism (1844)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm`,`Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it – when it exists for us as capital, or when it is directly possessed, eaten, drunk, worn, inhabited, etc., – in short, when it is used by us. Although private property itself again conceives all these direct realisations of possession only as means of life, and the life which they serve as means is the life of private property – labour and conversion into capital.` |
| 67 | `Karl Marx`,`Private Property and Communism (1844)`,`https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm`,`But also when I am active scientifically, etc. – an activity which I can seldom perform in direct community with others – then my activity is social, because I perform it as a man. Not only is the material of my activity given to me as a social product (as is even the language in which the thinker is active): my own existence is social activity, and therefore that which I make of myself, I make of myself for society and with the consciousness of myself as a social being.` |
| 68 | `Karl Marx`,`Speech at Anniversary of The People’s Paper (1856)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1856/04/14.htm`,`History is the judge — its executioner, the proletarian.` |
| 69 | `Karl Marx`,`The German Ideology (1845)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01a.htm#a2`,`As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and with how they produce. The nature of individuals thus depends on the material conditions determining their production.` |
| 70 | `Karl Marx`,`The German Ideology (1845)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01d.htm`,`Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on a mass scale is, necessary, an alteration which can only take place in a practical movement, a revolution; this revolution is necessary, therefore, not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew.` |
| 71 | `Karl Marx`,`The Holy Family (1845)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/holy-family/ch06_2.htm#history`,`History does nothing, it ‘possesses no immense wealth’, it ‘wages no battles’. It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses and fights; ‘history’ is not, as it were, a person apart, using man as a means to achieve its own aims; history is nothing but the activity of man pursuing his aims.` |
| 72 | `Karl Marx`,`The Holy Family, Chapter 6 (1846)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/holy-family/ch06_2.htm#history`,`History does nothing, it ‘possesses no immense wealth’, it ‘wages no battles’. It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses and fights; ‘history’ is not, as it were, a person apart, using man as a means to achieve its own aims; history is nothing but the activity of man pursuing his aims..` |
| 73 | `Karl Marx`,`Theories of Surplus Value (1863)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1863/theories-surplus-value/ch01.htm`,`All economists share the error of examining surplus-value not as such, in its pure form, but in the particular forms of profit and rent.` |
| 74 | `Karl Marx`,`The Paris Commune (1871)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/ch05.htm`,`It is generally the fate of completely new historical creations to be mistaken for the counterparts of older, and even defunct, forms of social life, to which they may bear a certain likeness. ` |
| 75 | `Karl Marx`,`The Paris Commune (1871)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/ch05.htm#p221-years`,`But the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for its own purposes. ` |
| 76 | `Karl Marx`,`The Paris Commune (1871)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/ch05.htm#p221-years`,`Instead of deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to misrepresent the people in Parliament, universal suffrage was to serve the people, ....` |
| 77 | `Karl Marx`,`Theses On Feuerbach: Thesis 11 (1845)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm#018`,`The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.` |
| 78 | `Karl Marx`,`Theses On Feuerbach: Thesis 2 (1845)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm#003`,`The question whether objective truth can be attributed to human thinking is not a question of theory but is a practical question.` |
| 79 | `Karl Marx`,`Theses On Feuerbach: Thesis 3 (1845)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm#004`,`The materialist doctrine concerning the changing of circumstances and upbringing forgets that circumstances are changed by men and that it is essential to educate the educator himself. This doctrine must, therefore, divide society into two parts, one of which is superior to society.` |
| 80 | `Karl Marx`,`Wage Labour and Capital (1847)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/ch02.htm`,`And this life activity [the worker] sells to another person in order to secure the necessary means of life. ... He works that he may keep alive. He does not count the labor itself as a part of his life; it is rather a sacrifice of his life. It is a commodity that he has auctioned off to another.` |
| 81 | `Karl Marx`,`Wage Labour and Capital (1847)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/ch05.htm`,`What is a Negro slave? A man of the black race. ... A Negro is a Negro. Only under certain conditions does he become a slave. A cotton-spinning machine is a machine for spinning cotton. Only under certain conditions does it become capital. Torn away from these conditions, it is as little capital as gold is itself money, or sugar is the price of sugar` |
| 82 | `Karl Marx`,`Wage Labour and Capital (1847)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/ch06.htm`,`A house may be large or small; as long as the neighboring houses are likewise small, it satisfies all social requirement for a residence. But let there arise next to the little house a palace, and the little house shrinks to a hut. The little house now makes it clear that its inmate has no social position at all to maintain.` |
| 83 | `Karl Marx`,`Wages of Labour (1844)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/wages.htm`,`Political Economy regards the proletarian ... like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle.` |