Karl Heinrich Marx Quotes

• Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

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• The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

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• The philosophers have only interpreted the world. The point, however, is to change it.

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• History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

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• Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

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• 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.

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• It is not “history” which uses men as a means of achieving — as if it were an individual person — its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

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  Life is too short to be anything but happy.

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• The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

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• Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

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• Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

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• While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

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• We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

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• There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

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• The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

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• The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

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• The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

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• The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

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• The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

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• The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

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Karl Heinrich Marx (83)

Birth:	5th May, 1818
Death:	14th March, 1883
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Philosopher

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Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Marx's work in economics laid the basis for the current understanding of labour and its relation to capital, and has influenced much of subsequent economic thought. He published numerous books during his lifetime, the most notable being The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital.

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