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As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involved the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.
The Communist Manifesto: Chapter II. Proletarians and Communists (1848)
Supply and demand constantly determine the prices of commodities; never balance, or only coincidentally; but the cost of production, for its part, determines the oscillations of supply and demand.
Grundrisse (1857)
In this instance the interests of the revolutionary Democracy and of England go hand in hand.
The philosopher, who is himself an abstract form of alienated man, sets himself up as the measure of the alienated world.
We cannot always choose the vocation to which we believe we are called. Our social relations, to some extent, have already begun to form before we are in a position to determine them.
Reflections of a Youth on Choosing an Occupation (1835)
The uncritical way in which he has treated his subject will become evident from one single remark. He pleads against a rise of wages or against high wages as the result of such a rise.
Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.
On the Jewish Question (1843)
The executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.
Lincoln's place in the history of the United States and of mankind will, nevertheless, be next to that of Washington!
Comments on the North American Events (1862)
Usury lives in the pores of production, as it were, just as the gods of Epicurus lived in the space between the worlds.
— man's heart is a wonderful thing, especially when carried in the purse —
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
Every step of real movement is more important than a dozen programmes.
Reason has always existed, but not always in a rational form.
Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?
Grundrisse (1857)
Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital, in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit.
Grundrisse (1857)
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)
In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.
Das Kapital (Buch III) (1894)
The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage, in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
But, suppose, besides, that the making of the new machinery affords employment to a greater number of mechanics, can that be called compensation to the carpet makers, thrown on the streets?
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)