The quotations of

Karl Marx

German-born philosopher

1818–1883

26 quotes, most often on Economics, Politics and Work.

Capital is dead labor, that vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867), Vol. I, Ch. 10, Section 1, p. 257.
- Economics
- Work
The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867), Vol. I, Ch. 13, pg. 363.
- Economics
The product of mental labor — science — always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
Addenda, “Relative and Absolute Surplus Value” in Economic Manuscripts (1861-63)
- Economics
- Science
The knell of capitalist private property sounds.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867), Vol. I, Ch. 32, p. 837.
- Economics
The mode of production of material life determines the social, political and intellectual life process in general.
Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859).
- Economics
- Philosophy
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.
The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
- Economics
- Work
What the bourgeoisie, therefore, produces, above all, is its own grave-diggers.
The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
- Economics
In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
- Economics
- Politics

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