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Money is not a thing, but a social relation.
The Poverty of Philosophy (1847)
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything.
Grundrisse (1857)
Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.
The production of ideas, of conceptions, of consciousness, is at first directly interwoven with the material activity and the material intercourse of men, the language of real life.
The German Ideology (1845)
But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
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.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.
Grundrisse (1857)
In a constantly revolving circle every point is simultaneously a point of departure and a point of return. If we interrupt the rotation, not every point of departure is a point of return.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
The product of mental labor — science — always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
Hegel says somewhere that that great historic facts and personages recur twice. He forgot to add: "Once as tragedy, and again as farce."
Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843)
The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
In a social order dominated by capitalist production even the non-capitalist producer is gripped by capitalist conceptions.
Das Kapital (Buch III) (1894)
Bourgeois society continuously brings forth the Jew from its own entrails.
On the Jewish Question (1843)
Only that position can impart dignity in which we do not appear as servile tools but rather create independently within our circle.
Reflections of a Youth on Choosing an Occupation (1835)
"Every beginning is difficult" holds in every science.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
Political Economy regards the proletarian … like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being.
There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
Nor is it the irrationality of the form which is taken as characteristic. On the contrary, one overlooks the irrational.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)