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Quotes from Grundrisse — Karl Marx

1818–1883 Germany

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The circulation of capital realizes value, while living labour creates value.

Grundrisse (1857)

The development of fixed capital indicates in still another respect the degree of development of wealth generally, or of capital…

Grundrisse (1857)

Any society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of relationships [and] conditions that the individual actor is forming.

Grundrisse (1857)

Ideas do not exist separately from language.

Grundrisse (1857)

The object of art — like every other product — creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

Grundrisse (1857)

The industrial peak of a people when its main concern is not yet gain, but rather to gain.

Grundrisse (1857)

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

Grundrisse (1857)

Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.

Grundrisse (1857)

Something that is merely negative creates nothing.

Grundrisse (1857)

The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.

Grundrisse (1857)

Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.

Grundrisse (1857)

Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.

Grundrisse (1857)

The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity.

Grundrisse (1857)

The object before us, to begin with, material production.

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It is impossible to pursue this nonsense any further.

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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)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Karl Marx (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.