People/M
The quotations of
German-born philosopher
1818–1883
26 quotes, most often on Economics, Politics and Work.
The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.
The executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.
The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers.
All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
What the bourgeoisie, therefore, produces, above all, is its own grave-diggers.
In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The working men have no country.
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!
Karl Marx1818–1883
