( Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German-Jewish
philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and
revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the
development of social science and the socialist political movement. He
published various books during his lifetime, with the most notable being
The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Capital (1867–1894); some of his
works were co-written with his friend, the fellow German revolutionary
socialist Friedrich Engels. )
- The theory of Communism may be summed up in the single sentence:
Abolition of private property.
- Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the
products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power
to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriation.
- Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be
established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself.
We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present
state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the
premises now in existence.
- Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an
object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as
capital ... Thus all the physical and intellectual senses have been
replaced by ... the sense of having.
- Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression
of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is
the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world,
and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
- What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need,
self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering.
What is his worldly God? Money.
- From each according to his abilities, to each according to his
needs.
- 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?
- Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between
man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of
the conflict between existence and essence, objectification and
self-affirmation, freedom and necessity, individual and species. It
is the riddle of history solved and knows itself as the solution.
- Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of
human relationships to a man himself.
- The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various
ways. The point, however, is to change it.
- Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the
actual world as masturbation to sexual love.
- The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the
rope.
- History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
- 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.
- Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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