Quotes from Karl Marx

Acogeré con los brazos abiertos todos los juicios de la crítica científica. En cuanto a los prejuicios de la llamada opinión pública, a la que jamás he hecho concesiones, seguiré ateniéndome al lema del gran florentino: Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti! (III) Londres, 25 de julio de 1867. CARLOS MARX

Ogni giudizio di critica scientifica sarà da me bene accolto. D'altra parte per i pregiudizi della cosiddetta pubblica opinione, cui non ho mai fatto concessioni, vale per me in ogni caso la sentenza del grande fiorentino: Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

los obreros deben, en ciertas circunstancias, unirse y luchar por el aumento de sus jornales.

The criticism of religion ends with the teaching that man is the highest essence for man – hence, with the categoric imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence, relations which cannot be better described than by the cry of a Frenchman when it was planned to introduce a tax on dogs: 'Poor dogs! They want to treat you as human beings!

What the bourgeoisie, therefore, produces, above all, is its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.

Es la declaración en quiebra de la economía "burguesa, expuesta ya de mano maestra, en su obra Apuntes de economía política según Stuart Mill por el gran erudito y crítico ruso N. Chernichevski.

The purchase and sale of slaves is also in its form a purchase and sale of commodities. Without the existence of slaves, however, money cannot fulfil this function. If there is slavery, then money can be spent on the acquisition of slaves. But money in the hand of the buyer is in no way a sufficient condition for the existence of slavery.

La cooperación en el proceso de trabajo, que es la forma imperante en los comienzos de la civilización, en los pueblos de cazadores,20 o en la agricultura de las comunidades indias se basa, de una parte, en la propiedad colectiva sobre las condiciones de producción y de otra parte en el hecho de, que el individuo no ha roto todavía el cordón umbilical que le une a la comunidad o a la tribu, de la que forma parte como la abeja de la colmena. Ambas

Its dramatis personae are not so much the worker and the industrialist, but rather the money-owner (and money-lender), the wholesale merchant, the trader and the entrepreneur or 'functioning capitalist'.

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body from chains because he enchained the heart.

Fixed and circulating capital are now no longer distinct and independent capital investments, but rather different portions of the same productive capital, which form different shares of the total value in different spheres of investment.

Religion is the moan of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, as it is the spirit of spiritless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Proletaryan?n, zincirlerinden baÅŸka kaybedecek bir ÅŸeyi yoktur. Ama kazanacaklar? bir dünya vard?r.

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one. It is itself an economic power.

That culture, the loss of which he laments, is, for the enormous majority, a mere training to act as a machine.

How lame an anti-climax! If the working-class has remained "poor," only "less poor" in proportion as it produces for the wealthy class "an intoxicating augmentation of wealth and power," then it has remained relatively just as poor.

philosophers have only interpreted the world; the point however, is to change it

Die Geschichte ist die wahre Naturgeschichte des Menschen.

working day of this kind, which is formed by the succession of more or less numerous interrelated working days, I call a working period. If we speak of the working day, then we mean the length of time for which the worker must daily expend his labour-power, must work. If we speak of the working period, on the other hand, this means the number of inter-related working days that are required, in a

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

You preach to me constantly the gospel of 'saving' and 'abstinence'. Good! I will, like a sensible saving owner, husband my sole wealth, labour-power, and abstain from all foolish waste of it.

Democracy is the road to Socialism.