Karl Heinrich Marx Quotes

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

  Karl Heinrich Marx

• 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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• The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

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• 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.

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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 only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

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• The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

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

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• The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

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• The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

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• The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

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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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