I leave you the best phrases of Karl Marx (1818-1883) about capitalism, love, life, man, religion, democracy and much more. Marx was a German philosopher and thinker, considered one of the most influential people in the history of mankind.
Father of Socialism, Communism and Marxism, his work dealt with the fields of political science, sociology, economics, history, among others. Two of his most famous works are the Manifesto of the Communist Party and Capital.
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-The theory of communism can be summarized in one sentence: the abolition of all private property.
-The unity of the bourgeoisie can only be shaken by the unity of the proletariat.
-The first requirement for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-The reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable way.
-History repeats itself, first as a tragedy and second, as a farce.
-Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it.
-Money plays the most important part in determining the course of history.
-Without the presence of the class struggle, it would be difficult to justify the existence of the unions.
-Luxury is the opposite of what is naturally necessary.
-I don't like money, money is the reason for our fight.
-A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.
-Try to surround yourself with people who make you happy, who make you laugh, who help you when you need it. They are the ones that are worth preserving in your life, since the rest is passing through.
-An idea can become a force when it takes hold of the masses.
-Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but by the strength of the weak.
-The past lies like a nightmare about the present.
-The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.
-My goal in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.
-The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
-To each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs.
-The rich will do nothing for the poor, other than lower their backs.
-Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a ruthless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
-The objective is not only to understand the world, but to change it.
-Democracy is the way to socialism.
-There must be something rotten in the very heart of a social system, which increases its wealth, without reducing its misery.
-Money degrades all the gods of man and turns them into merchandise.
-Surprise a man with a fish and you can sell it to him. Teach him to fish and you will ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
-When sick people learn to think, thinkers will learn to suffer.
-The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-loathing, humiliation, submission, humility, in a word, all the qualities of scoundrels.
-Religion is the powerlessness of the human mind to deal with events that it cannot understand.
-The ideas of men are the most direct emanations of their material situation.
-The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
-The alienation of man appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.
-There is only one way to kill capitalism: through taxes, taxes and more taxes.
-The capital is dead work that, like a vampire, lives only by sucking the living work and the more work it sucks, the more it lives.
-In bourgeois society, capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
-Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
-There is nothing easier than giving a socialist tinge to Christian asceticism.
-The education of all children, from the moment they can be without the care of their mother, will be in the institutions of the State.
-The last capitalist we hang will be the one who sold us the rope.
- Philosophers have interpreted the world in different ways. The goal, however, is to change it.
-The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.
-Communism begins where atheism begins.
-Society does not consist of individuals, but rather expresses the sum of interrelationships, relationships in which individuals remain.
-The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of its class, the more solid and dangerous are its dominions.
-Don't be fooled by the abstract word freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one person in relation to another, but the freedom of capital to crush the worker.
-Art is always and everywhere the secret confession and, at the same time, the immortal movement of its time.
-I am a machine condemned to devour books.
-Work is not the only source of material wealth; that is, of the use values it produces. As William Petty says 'Work is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother'.
-All I know is that I am not a Marxist.
-The country that is more industrially developed only shows to the less developed the image of its own future.
-May the devil take away these popular movements! Especially when they are 'peaceful'.
-Each piece of money is a mere currency or circulation fund, only insofar as it really circulates.
-Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known about the existence of God.
-The capitalist production does not exist at all, without foreign trade.
-Nothing can have value without being a useful object.
-Anyone who knows some history knows that great social changes are impossible without female agitation. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the weaker sex, including the ugly ones.
-Go your own way, no matter what people say.
-Since the working class lives from day to day, it buys while it has the means to buy.
-Workers of the world, unite. They have nothing to lose except their chains.
-A heavy, progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of communism.
-The imaginary flowers of religion adorn the chains of man. The man has to get rid of the flowers, and also the chains.
-The accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time the accumulation of misery, torments of work, slavery, ignorance, brutality and mental degradation, at the opposite pole.
-Under no pretext should weapons and ammunition be surrendered; Any attempt to disarm the workers must be thwarted, and by force, if necessary.
-The so-called history of the world is nothing more than the creation of man through human work.
-The wages are determined by the bitter struggle between the capitalist and the worker.
-In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all eternity, nothing is absolute or sacred.
-The meaning of peace is the absence of an opposition to socialism.
-All science would be superfluous if the external appearance and the essence of things coincide directly.
-The owners, like all men, love to reap where they never sowed.
-The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and write, but by no means, must he live and write in order to earn money.
-It is not man's conscience that determines his being, but his social being is what determines his conscience.
-Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
-Let the ruling classes tremble before a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workers of all countries, unite!
-The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.
-Although gold and silver are not money by nature, money is, by nature, gold and silver.
-The entire proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannons and ammunition, and the resurgence of the old style of militia, directed against the workers, must be rejected.
-When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestionable supremacy, it constitutes everywhere a system of looting.
-The economic concept of value does not exist in ancient times.
-A man cannot become a child again or he will become childish.
-The capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the earth of the elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; therefore, it violates the conditions necessary for the duration of the fertility of the soils.
-Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you are in need. People who really care. They are the ones worth having in your life. Everyone else is passing through.
-The capital is usually indiscreet with the health or with the life span of a worker, unless society requires otherwise.
-Greek philosophy seems to have found something with which a good tragedy should not meet: a monotonous ending.
-Discovering the different uses of things is the job of history, as is the establishment of measurement standards that are socially recognized for the quantities of these useful objects.
-The exchange of goods is an act characterized by a total abstraction of the value of its use.
-Private property of the capitalist order, has for its fundamental condition the annihilation, in other words, the expropriation of the worker.
-The writer can serve a movement in history very well as its mouthpiece, but cannot, of course, implement it.
-The product of science is often below its real value because the work time to reproduce it does not correspond to the time required for its original production.
-What they have conceived as the essence of man and substance is nothing more than the sum of the productive forces, the social forms of exchange and capital funds that each individual and generation finds in existence.
-The religious spirit, even in these times, is not completely secularized.
-The task of history, once the other world of truth has vanished, is to establish the new truth of the world.
-A specter is disturbing the rest of Europe… The specter of communism.
-Modern bourgeois society has established new classes, new conditions of oppression and new forms of struggle.
-At this critical moment, one of the contagions that previously seemed absurd explodes: the epidemic of overproduction.
-Work is the principle of wealth of every culture, and since work is useful, it is only possible in society through society.
-The production of work belongs to all members who live together in society without any type of reduction, with equal rights.
-The sum total of the relations of social production constitutes the economic structure of society.
-The consciousness of men is not what allows determining their existence, on the contrary, the social existence of men is what really determines their consciousness.
-The emancipation of work must be a task of the working class.
-The main head of emancipation is philosophy. Philosophy cannot be realized without the abolition of the proletariat and the latter cannot be abolished without realizing philosophy.
-I find television and radio very educational. Every time someone turns them on, I head into another room and read a book.
-The theory becomes reality in a people only when it represents the fulfillment of the needs of said people.
-The workers are organized as soldiers, as soldiers of the industrial army, under the power of a hierarchy of officers and sergeants.
-The workers are still part of a senseless and dispersed mass, which generates division due to constant mutual competition.
-A man of integrity finds it difficult to understand the needs of the hungry.
-We will never have or ask for compassion from you when our turn comes.
-I laugh at people who proclaim themselves “practices” of their wisdom ”. If you want to live like a beast, you can naturally do so, turning your back on the suffering of humanity and caring for your own skin.
-The practical objective of the communists is the formation of the proletariat in a class, the overthrow of the bourgeoisie and the conquest of political power by the proletariat.
-The slave, still a prisoner of archaic notions, should always enroll in the rebellion program.
-An exuberance of friends does not lead to a better philosophy of life.
-No revolution is made out of shame. To which I reply: Shame is already a kind of revolution.
-I have a mind, without ever becoming a hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.
-Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.
-The fundamental defect of all previous materialism -including that of Feuerbach- is that it only conceives things, reality, sensoriality, in the form of object or contemplation, but not as human sensory activity, not as practice, not as a subjective mode.
-The problem of whether an objective truth can be attributed to human thought is not a theoretical problem, but a practical problem.
-Passion is the essential force of man that energetically tends towards its object.
-If money is the link that binds me to human life, that links me to society, that links me with nature and with man, isn't money the link of all ties?
-Even if he is a coward, he is brave who can buy courage.
-The fundamental question is that the object of consciousness is nothing other than self-consciousness.
-Hunger is the objective need that a body has for an object that is outside of it and is essential for its integration and essential externalization.