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Quotes from Das Kapital (Buch I) — Karl Marx

1818–1883 Germany

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To discover the various use of things is the work of history.

Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)

Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.

Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)

Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.

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Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one. It is itself an economic power.

Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)

In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.

Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)

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.

Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)

But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.

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Every one knows that there are no real forests in England. The deer in the parks of the great are demurely domestic cattle, fat as London alderman.

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The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)

"Every beginning is difficult" holds in every science.

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There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.

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Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets!

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As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah, so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital.

Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)

Classical political economy nearly touches the true relation of things, without, however,consciously formulating it. This it cannot so long as it sticks in its bourgeois skin.

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Capital grows in one place to a huge mass in a single hand, because it has in another place been lost by many. This is centralisation proper, as distinct from accumulation and concentration.

Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)

I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.

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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

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Of all the animals kept by the farmer, the labourer, the instrumentum vocale, was,thenceforth, the most oppressed, the worst nourished, the most brutally treated.

Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)

— man's heart is a wonderful thing, especially when carried in the purse —

Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)

An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.

Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)

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