Quotes from Das Kapital (Buch I) — Karl Marx
1818–1883 Germany
58 quotes
Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.
We see then, commodities are in love with money, but "the course of true love never did run smooth".
The ancients therefore denounced money as subversive of the economic and moral order of things.
Unlimited exploitation of cheap labour-power is the sole foundation of their power to compete.
We suffer not only from the living, but from the dead.
The knell of capitalist private property sounds.
Every commodity is compelled to chose some other commodity for its equivalent.
The religious world is but the reflex of the real world.
Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.
It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating."
In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
But if the labourers could live on air they could not be bought at any price.
The law of gravity thus asserts itself when a house falls about our ears.
If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.
The tool, as we have seen, is not exterminated by the machine.
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