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Any society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of relationships [and] conditions that the individual actor is forming.
Grundrisse (1857)
Feuerbach is the only one who has a serious, critical attitude to the Hegelian dialectic and who has made genuine discoveries in this field.
We suffer not only from the living, but from the dead.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
The knell of capitalist private property sounds.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
For capitalism is abolished root and branch by the bare assumption that it is personal consumption and not enrichment that works as the compelling motive.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
Ideas do not exist separately from language.
Grundrisse (1857)
The object of art — like every other product — creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.
Grundrisse (1857)
The industrial peak of a people when its main concern is not yet gain, but rather to gain.
Grundrisse (1857)
Every commodity is compelled to chose some other commodity for its equivalent.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
The way to Hell is paved with good intentions, and he might just as easily have intended to make money, without producing at all.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.
Grundrisse (1857)
The religious world is but the reflex of the real world.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.
Grundrisse (1857)
Something that is merely negative creates nothing.
Grundrisse (1857)
Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.
Emancipation from huckstering and money, consequently from practical, real Judaism, would be the self-emancipation of our time.
On the Jewish Question (1843)
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs!
The Criticism of the Gotha Program (1875)
Neither of us cares a straw for popularity.
Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
The entire process seems simple and natural, i.e., possesses the naturalness of a shallow rationalism.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)