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All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.
The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.
Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.
It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.
There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.
There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.
Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.
The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction
Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.
Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld dominationis immutable.
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.
As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
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.
Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period of peace.
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.
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.
2 is a proletariat prime, but 4, 6 and 8 are also composite proletariats. Composites of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains!
Every one knows that there are no real forests in England.The deer in the parks of the great are demurely domestic cattle, fat as London alderman.
What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
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.
Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people.
Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.
...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.
In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party
...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.
When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.
In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.
From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again.
The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.
Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.
It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.
The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed.
This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial features.
Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same.
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital .
But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything.
A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children.
The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker.