Karl Marx Quotes

“he bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production.”

“In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.”

“Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.”

“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.”

“Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.”

“Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps.”

“The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered forms, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation, distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones.”

“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”

“The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.”

“The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.”

“The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.”

“The theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”

“Workingmen of all countries unite!”