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Karl Marx
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“Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.”
Karl Marx
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Das Kapital
“Unlimited exploitation of cheap labour-power is the sole foundation of their power to compete.”
Karl Marx
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Das Kapital
“Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.”
Karl Marx
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Das Kapital
“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.”
Karl Marx
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Das Kapital
“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
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Das Kapital
“There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.”
Karl Marx
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Das Kapital
“But capitalist production begets, with the inexorability of a law of Nature, its own negation. It is the negation of negation.”
Karl Marx
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Das Kapital
“And his money he cannot eat.”
Karl Marx
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Das Kapital
“Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.”
Karl Marx
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Das Kapital
“If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.”
Karl Marx
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Das Kapital
“Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets!”
Karl Marx
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Das Kapital
“As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.”
Karl Marx
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Das Kapital
“Moments are the elements of profit.”
Karl Marx
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Das Kapital
“Hence, money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.”
Karl Marx
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Das Kapital
“But if the labourers could live on air they could not be bought at any price.”
Karl Marx
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Das Kapital
“The tool, as we have seen, is not exterminated by the machine.”
Karl Marx
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Das Kapital
“Hence Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the labourer, unless under compulsion from society.”
Karl Marx
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Das Kapital
“Constant revolution in production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation, distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones.”
Karl Marx
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Das Kapital
“Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences.”
Karl Marx
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Das Kapital
“A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood. Its analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.”
Karl Marx
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Das Kapital
“The modern history of capital dates from the creation in the 16th century of a world-embracing commerce and a world-embracing market.”
Karl Marx
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Das Kapital
“gold and silver . . . are . . . the direct incarnation of all human labour. Hence the magic of money.”
Karl Marx
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Das Kapital
“On the level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the imbecile flatness of the present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.”
Karl Marx
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Das Kapital
“Darwin has interested us in the history of Nature’s Technology, i.e., in the formation of the organs of plants and animals, which organs serve as instruments of production for sustaining life.”
Karl Marx
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Das Kapital
“There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.”
Karl Marx
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Das Kapital
“in a country where every mouse is under police administration . . . among the all-embracing mass of French laws”
Karl Marx
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Das Kapital
“The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.”
Karl Marx
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Das Kapital
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