Quotes by : Karl Marx

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

Take the example of our spinner. We have seen that, to daily reproduce his labouring power, he must daily....

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing....

By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make....

Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to....

The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated....

A use-value, or useful article, therefore, has value only because abstract human labour is objectified....

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but....

As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.

I am a machine condemned to devour books.