The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.
The circulation of capital realizes value, while living labour creates value .
In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.
In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims.
Take away a nation’s heritage and they are more easily persuaded.
Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the ‘ever needy’ man?
In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.
Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence.
A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation.
The object of art, like every other product, creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.
In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.
In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.
Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.
Change the economic base and you will change human beings.
Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.
One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.
Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.