Quotes by Marx, Karl

"The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite."

Marx, Karl on unity   

"Nothing can have value without being an object of utility."

Marx, Karl on value   

"In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic."

Marx, Karl on work   

"The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it."

Marx, Karl on writers and writing   

"In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."

Marx, Karl on communism and socialism   

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

Marx, Karl on communism and socialism   

"A specter is haunting Europe -- the specter of communism."

Marx, Karl on communism and socialism   

"All I know is I'm not a Marxist."

Marx, Karl on communism and socialism   

"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force."

Marx, Karl on culture   

"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. "

Marx, Karl on uncategorised   

"Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld dominationis immutable. "

Marx, Karl on uncategorised   

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