Karl Marx Quotes

Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.

فالشیوعیة لا تجرِّد أحدا من القدرة على تملّك منتجات مجتمعیة, بل تنتزع فقط القدرة على
استعباد عمل الغیر بواسطة ھذا التملّك.

The object of art — like every other product — creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

Die Ideen exis­tie­ren nicht ge­trennt von der Spra­che.

The formula itself expresses that the money is not spent here as money, but is only advanced, and is thus simply the money form of capital, money capital. It further expresses the fact that it is the exchange-value, not the use-value, that is the decisive inherent purpose of the movement.

The weapon of criticism obviously cannot replace the criticism of weapons. Material force can only be overthrown by material force, but theory itself becomes a material force when it has gripped the masses. Theory is capable of gripping the masses when it demonstrates ad hominem, and it demonstrates ad hominem, when it becomes radical. To be radical is to grasp things by the root, but for man the root is man himself. The clear proof of the radicalism of German theory, and hence of its political energy, is that it proceeds from the decisive positive abolition of religion.

Money is the alienated essence of man's labor and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.

As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.

The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of , and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.

In history as in nature, decay is the laboratory of life.

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

"It is one of the greatest misapprehensions to speak of free, human, social labour, of albour without private property. "Labour" by its very nature is unfree, unhuman, unsocial activity, determined by private property and creating private property. Hence the abolition of private property will become a reality only when it is concieved as the abolition of "labour"."

The only possible solution which will preserve Germany's honor and Germany's interest is, we repeat, a war with Russia.

Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.

Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.