Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.
As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah, so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital .
The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.
There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.
The masses are the asses.
Every beginning is difficult in all sciences.
But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything.
Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it.
The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.
The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.
I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.
Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.
Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.
Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.
If Karl, instead of writing a lot about capital, had made a lot of it, it would have been much better.
Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.
The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.
An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.
When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.
The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.