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No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.
Grundrisse (1857)
Surplus value is exactly equal to surplus labour; the increase of the one [is] exactly measured by the diminution of necessary labour.
Grundrisse (1857)
Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets!
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
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)
Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same.
Grundrisse (1857)
Thus do these loans, which are a curse to the people, a ruin to the holders, and a danger to the governments, become a blessing to the houses of the children of Judah.
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.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.
Grundrisse (1857)
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.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
The only possible solution which will preserve Germany's honor and Germany's interest is, we repeat, a war with Russia.
So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
Philosophy is an interpretation of the world in order to change it.
A specter is haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
The Communist Manifesto (1848)
A spectre is haunting Europe; the spectre of Communism.
and Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto (1848)
Reason nevertheless prevails in world history.
Comments on the North American Events (1862)
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)
They stoop to pick up golden apples dropped from the tree of industry, and to barter truth, love, and honour for traffic in wool, beetroot-sugar, and potato spirits.