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"Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way. (Karl Marx)
Surplus value is exactly equal to surplus labour; the increase of the one [is] exactly measured by the diminution of necessary labour. View quote
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We see then, commodities are in love with money, but "the course of true love never did run smooth." View quote
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Only that position can impart dignity in which we do not appear as servile tools but rather create independently within our circle. View quote
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Reason nevertheless prevails in world history. View quote
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For capitalism is abolished root and branch by the bare assumption that it is personal consumption and not enrichment that works as the compelling motive. View quote
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But simultaneously with the development of capitalist production the credit system also develops. The money-capital which the capitalist cannot as yet employ in his own business is employed by others, who pay him interest for its use. View quote
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Capital grows in one place to a huge mass in a single hand, because it has in another place been lost by many. This is centralisation proper, as distinct from accumulation and concentration. View quote
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History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends. View quote
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If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them. View quote
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Of all the animals kept by the farmer, the labourer, the instrumentum vocale, was, thenceforth, the most oppressed, the worst nourished, the most brutally treated. (Karl Marx)
Unlimited exploitation of cheap labour-power is the sole foundation of their power to compete. View quote
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Long hours of labour seem to be the secret of the rational and healthful processes, which are to raise the condition of the labourer by an improvement of his mental and moral powers and to make a rational consumer out of him. View quote
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A house sold by A to B does not wander from one place to another, although it circulates as a commodity. View quote
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What strikes one here above all is the crudely empirical conception of profit derived from the outlook of the ordinary capitalist, which wholly contradicts the better esoteric understanding of Adam Smith. View quote
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Nor is it the irrationality of the form which is taken as characteristic. On the contrary, one overlooks the irrational. View quote
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Capitals accumulate faster than the population; thus wages; thus population; thus grain prices; thus the difficulty of production and hence the exchange values. View quote
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Money is itself a product of circulation. View quote
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No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc. View quote
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The tool, as we have seen, is not exterminated by the machine. View quote
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What's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose. (Karl Marx)
The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley of ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment." View quote
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But, suppose, besides, that the making of the new machinery affords employment to a greater number of mechanics, can that be called compensation to the carpet makers, thrown on the streets? View quote
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Hegel once observed that comedy is in act superior to tragedy and humourous reasoning superior to grandiloquent reasoning. Although Lincoln does not possess the grandiloquence of historical action, as an average man of the people he has its humour. View quote
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In England women are still occasionally used instead of horses for hauling canal boats, because the labour required to produce horses and machines is an accurately known quantity, while that required to maintain the women of the surplus population is below all calculation. View quote
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Occupation: German Philosopher
Born: May 5, 1818
Died: March 14, 1883
Quotes count: 369
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