Karl Marx
Country: USA
Born: 12 Febrary, 1809
Died: 15 Aprail, 1865 (Aged 56)
Karl Marx Biography
Karl Marx (1818–1883) was a German philosopher, economist, and revolutionary socialist whose ideas deeply shaped modern political thought. Born in Tester, Germany, he studied law and philosophy before turning to journalism and political activism. Marx is best known for co-authoring The Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels and for his major work Das Capital. His analysis of capitalism, class struggle, and labor continues to inspiration economics, sociology, and political movements worldwide.
Timeless Quotes by Karl Marx
Labor is, in the first place, a process in which both man and Nature participate.
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The history of all hit hero existing society is the history of class struggles.
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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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Philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
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From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Capital is dead labor, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor.
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Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
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The production of too many useful things produces too many useless people.
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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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The very essence of capitalism is the unequal exchange between capital and labor.
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To be radical is to grasp things by the root.
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a terrible on the brains of the living.
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Labor in the white skin cannot liberate itself where labor in the black skin is branded.
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A house may be large or small; as long as the neighboring houses are likewise small, it satisfies all social requirements for a residence.
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The demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions.
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The philosophers have only inferred the world; the point, however, is to change it.
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The freedom of the working class must be the act of the working class itself.
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Nothing can have value without being an piece of utility.
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The theory of Socialism may be summed up in the single sentence: Closure of private property.
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Freedom consists in converting the state from an organ covered upon society into one completely inferior to it.
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Religion is the morphine of the people.
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Democracy is the road to socialism.
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The exploitation of one man by another is the foundation of all social injustice.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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A society that suppresses real individuality produces hypocrites.
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Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.
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The ideas of the dominant class are in every era the ruling ideas.
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The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces.
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Socialism is for us not a state of affairs to be established, but the real movement which eliminates the present state of things.
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The weapon of criticism cannot replace the criticism of weapons.
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History repeats itself, first as disaster, second as farce.
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The bourgeoisie has through its abuse of the world market given a diverse character to production and consumption.
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Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of sadness at the opposite pole.
