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Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.
The German Ideology (1845)
The circulation of capital realizes value, while living labour creates value.
Grundrisse (1857)
History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.
The Holy Family (1845)
Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.
The German Ideology (1845)
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)
Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
De omnibus dubitandum [Everything must be doubted].
Since gold does not disclose what has been transformed into it, everything, commodity or not, is convertible into gold. Everything becomes saleable and buyable.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
It is in fact not the consciousness dominating life but the very life dominating consciousness.
The German Ideology (1845)
We see then, commodities are in love with money, but "the course of true love never did run smooth".
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
Theses on Feuerbach (1845)
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
Reason can no longer restrain one who is lured by the fury of ambition.
Reflections of a Youth on Choosing an Occupation (1835)
In capitalist society however where social reason always asserts itself only post festum great disturbances may and must constantly occur.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
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)
When Engels and I first joined the secret Communist Society we made it a condition that everything tending to encourage superstitious belief in authority was to be removed from the statutes.
The ancients therefore denounced money as subversive of the economic and moral order of things.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
Unlimited exploitation of cheap labour-power is the sole foundation of their power to compete.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
The development of fixed capital indicates in still another respect the degree of development of wealth generally, or of capital…
Grundrisse (1857)