communistquotes/quotes/Karl Marx/Capital.csv

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2	`Karl Marx`,` Capital Vol. III Chapter 48 (1883) `,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/ch48.htm`,`All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.`
3	`Karl Marx`,`Capital: Volume 1, Chapter 33: The Modern Theory of Colonisation (1867)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch33.htm`,`The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property; in other words, the expropriation of the laborer.`
4	`Karl Marx`,`Capital, Volume I, Chapter 10 (1867)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch10.htm#4a`,`Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks. The time during which the labourer works, is the time during which the capitalist consumes the labour-power he has purchased of him.`
5	`Karl Marx`,`Capital, Volume I, Chapter 10 (1867)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch10.htm`,`In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbour, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety. Après moi le déluge! is the watchword of every capitalist and of every capitalist nation. Hence Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the labourer, unless under compulsion from society.`
6	`Karl Marx`,`Capital, Volume I, Chapter 15 (1867)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm#a245`,`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.`
7	`Karl Marx`,`Capital, Volume I, Chapter 15 (1867)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm#n1`,`machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.`
8	`Karl Marx`,`Capital, Volume I, Chapter 16 (1867)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch16.htm#12a`,`On the level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the imbecile flatness of the present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects..`
9	`Karl Marx`,`Capital, Volume I, Chapter 16 (1867)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch16.htm`,`a schoolmaster is a productive labourer when, in addition to belabouring the heads of his scholars, he works like a horse to enrich the school proprietor. That the latter has laid out his capital in a teaching factory, instead of in a sausage factory, does not alter the relation.`
10	`Karl Marx`,`Capital, Volume I, Chapter 19 (1867)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch19.htm#5a`,`That which comes directly face to face with the possessor of money on the market, is in fact not labour, but the labourer. What the latter sells is his labour-power. As soon as his labour actually begins, it has already ceased to belong to him; it can therefore no longer be sold by him. Labour is the substance, and the immanent measure of value, but has itself no value. ... That in their appearance things often represent themselves in inverted form is pretty well known in every science except Political Economy`
11	`Karl Marx`,`Capital, Volume I, Chapter 25 (1867)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch25.htm#6a`,`A rise in the price of labour, as a consequence of accumulation of capital, only means, in fact, that the length and weight of the golden chain the wage-worker has already forged for himself, allow of a relaxation of the tension of it.`
12	`Karl Marx`,`Capital, Volume I, Chapter 3 (1867)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch03.htm#a3`,`The price or money-form of commodities is, like their form of value generally, a form quite distinct from their palpable bodily form; it is, therefore, a purely ideal or mental form`
13	`Karl Marx`,`Capital, Volume I, Chapter 3 (1867)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch03.htm#a44`,`Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life.`
14	`Karl Marx`,`Capital, Volume I, Chapter 32 (1867)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch32.htm#1a`,`Centralization of the means of production and socialization of labor at last reach a point where they become incompatible with their capitalist integument. Thus integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds.The expropriators are expropriated.`
15	`Karl Marx`,`Capital, Volume I, Chapter 4 (1867)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch04.htm#13a`,`Capital is money: Capital is commodities. ... Because it is value, it has acquired the occult quality of being able to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.`
16	`Karl Marx`,`Capital, Volume I, Chapter 4 (1867)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch04.htm#9a`,`While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.`
17	`Karl Marx`,`Capital, Volume I, Chapter 7 (1867)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch07.htm`,`Labour is, in the first place, a process in which both man and Nature participate, and in which man of his own accord starts, regulates, and controls the material re-actions between himself and Nature. He opposes himself to Nature as one of her own forces, ....`
18	`Karl Marx`,`Capital, Volume I, Chapter One (1867)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#054`,`Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, ie of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother.`
19	`Karl Marx`,`Capital, Volume I, Chapter One (1867)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#137`,`The secret of the expression of value, namely, that all kinds of labour are equal and equivalent, because, and so far as they are human labour in general, cannot be deciphered, until the notion of human equality has already acquired the fixity of a popular prejudice. This, however, is possible only in a society in which the great mass of the produce of labour takes the form of commodities, in which, consequently, the dominant relation between man and man, is that of owners of commodities.`
20	`Karl Marx`,`Capital, Volume I, Chapter One (1867)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#198`,`A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood. Its analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.`
21	`Karl Marx`,`Capital, Volume I, Chapter One (1867)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#19`,`It is with man as with commodities. Since he comes into the world neither with a looking glass in his hand, nor as a Fichtean philosopher, to whom ‘I am I’ is sufficient, man first sees and recognises himself in other men. Peter only establishes his own identity as a man by first comparing himself with Paul as being of like kind. And thereby Paul, just as he stands in his Pauline personality, becomes to Peter the type of the genus homo.`
22	`Karl Marx`,`Capital, Volume I, Chapter One (1867)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#204`,`the existence of the things qua commodities, and the value-relation between the products of labour which stamps them as commodities, have absolutely no connection with their physical properties and with the material relations arising therefrom. There it is a definite social relation between men, that assumes, in their eyes, the fantastic form of a relation between things. ... This I call the Fetishism ... of commodities.`
23	`Karl Marx`,`Capital, Volume I, Chapter One (1867)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#211`,`Man’s reflections on the forms of social life, and consequently, also, his scientific analysis of those forms, take a course directly opposite to that of their actual historical development. He begins, post festum, with the results of the process of development ready to hand before him.`
24	`Karl Marx`,`Capital, Volume I, Chapter One (1867)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#212`,`The categories of bourgeois economy consist of such like forms. They are forms of thought expressing with social validity the conditions and relations of a definite, historically determined mode of production, viz., the production of commodities. The whole mystery of commodities, all the magic and necromancy that surrounds the products of labour as long as they take the form of commodities, vanishes therefore, so soon as we come to other forms of production.`
25	`Karl Marx`,`Capital, Volume I, Chapter One (1867)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#222`,`Political Economy has indeed analysed, however incompletely, value and its magnitude, and has discovered what lies beneath these forms. But it has never once asked the question why labour is represented by the value of its product and labour-time by the magnitude of that value. These formulae, which bear it stamped upon them in unmistakable letters that they belong to a state of society, in which the process of production has the mastery over man, instead of being controlled by him, such formulae appear to the bourgeois intellect to be as much a self-evident necessity imposed by Nature as productive labour itself.`
26	`Karl Marx`,`Capital Volume II (1885)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1885-c2/ch18.htm`,`Every individual capital forms, however, but an individualised fraction, a fraction endowed with individual life, as it were, of the aggregate social capital, just as every individual capitalist is but an individual element of the capitalist class.`
27	`Karl Marx`,`Capital, Volume III (1894)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/ch48.htm`,`All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.`
28	`Karl Marx`,`Capital, Volume III (1894)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/ch48.htm`,`Just as the savage must wrestle with Nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and he must do so in all social formations and under all possible modes of production. With his development this realm of physical necessity expands as a result of his wants; but, at the same time, the forces of production which satisfy these wants also increase. Freedom in this field can only consist in socialised man, the associated producers, rationally regulating their interchange with Nature, bringing it under their common control, instead of being ruled by it as by the blind forces of Nature; and achieving this with the least expenditure of energy and under conditions most favourable to, and worthy of, their human nature. But it nonetheless still remains a realm of necessity. Beyond it begins that development of human energy which is an end in itself, the true realm of freedom, which, however, can blossom forth only with this realm of necessity as its basis. The shortening of the working-day is its basic prerequisite.`