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Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale even in foreign countries, so that titles to property are exportable, although the railway itself is not. (Karl Marx)
Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash. View quote
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The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production. View quote
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Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary. View quote
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The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest. View quote
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[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose truth we are wholly convinced, one that offers us largest scope in working for humanity and approaching that general goal towards which each profession offers only one of the means: the goal of perfection ... If he works only for himself he can become a famous scholar, a great sage, an excellent imaginative writer [Dichter], but never a perfected, a truly great man. View quote
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Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth. View quote
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To discover the various use of things is the work of history. View quote
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Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce. View quote
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The labour-power is a commodity, not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself. View quote
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In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital. (Karl Marx)
The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself. View quote
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. View quote
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[T]he very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror. View quote
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Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human. View quote
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But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation. View quote
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It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating. View quote
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Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression. View quote
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Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital, in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit . View quote
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In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all. View quote
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The circulation of capital realizes value, while living labour creates value . (Karl Marx)
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 . View quote
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Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation. View quote
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I am nothing and should be everything. View quote
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If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, the universal agent of separation? View quote
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