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The object before us, to begin with, material production.
Grundrisse (1857)
It is impossible to pursue this nonsense any further.
Grundrisse (1857)
Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
What's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose.
Grundrisse (1857)
Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.
Grundrisse (1857)
It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.
Grundrisse (1857)
Money is itself a product of circulation.
Grundrisse (1857)
Capitals accumulate faster than the population; thus wages; thus population; thus grain prices; thus the difficulty of production and hence the exchange values.
Grundrisse (1857)
On the other hand one must not entertain any fantastic illusions on the productive power of the credit system, so far as it supplies or sets in motion money-capital.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
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)
This has been compared to Horace Walpole's statement: "This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel."
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)
The devil take this wrong arithmetic. But never mind.
Grundrisse (1857)
The theory of Communism may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
and Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto (1848)
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor; And lives more by the labor it sucks.
The more the capitalist has accumulated, the more he is able to accumulate.
Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests.
The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
The weapon of criticism cannot, of course, replace criticism by weapons.
Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.
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)