Quotes from Karl Marx

History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

Le prix moyen du travail salarié est le minimum du salaire, c'est-à-dire la somme des moyens d'existence dont l'ouvrier a besoin pour vivre en ouvrier. Par conséquent, ce que l'ouvrier s'approprie par son activité est tout juste ce qui lui est nécessaire pour entretenir une maigre existence, et pour se reproduire.

Perseus wore a magic cap so that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over our own eyes and ears so as to deny that there are any monsters.

The mode of production of material life conditions the social, political and intellectual life process in general.

My dialectical method is not only different from the Hegelian, but is its direct opposite.

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labour employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labour employed.

The executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.

The write 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

The gods of Greece, once tragically wounded to death in the chained Prometheus of Æschylus, were fated to die a comic death in Lucian's dialogues

Le communisme n'enlève à personne le pouvoir de s'approprier sa part des produits sociaux, il n'ôte que le pouvoir d'assujettir, à l'aide de cette appropriation, le travail d'autrui

The necessary consequence of this was political centralization. Independent, or but loosely connected provinces, with separate interests, laws, governments and systems of taxation, became lumped together into one nation, with one government, one code of laws, one national class interest, one frontier, and one customs tariff.

Tek tek uluslar?n düÅŸünsel yarat?lar? hepsinin ortak mal? olmaktad?r. Ulusal tek yanl?l?k ve dar kafal?l?k her geçen gün biraz daha olanaks?zlaÅŸmakta, çok say?da ulusal ve yerel edebiyattan bir dünya edebiyat? doÄŸmaktad?r.

The separation between the Man of Labour and the Instruments of Labout once established, such a state of things will maintain itself and reproduce itself upon a constantly increasing scale, until a new and fundamental revolution in the mode of production should again overturn it, and restore the original union in a new historical form.

Sanayinin geliÅŸmesiyle birlikte egemen s?n?f?n birçok kesimi kendini proletarya saflar?nda bulur ya da en az?ndan varl??? tehlikeye girer. Bu kesimler proletaryaya yeni ayd?nlanma ve ilerleme öÄŸeleri saÄŸlarlar.

Bugüne kadar tarihteki tüm hareketler, ya az?nl?k hareketleri ya da az?nl?klar?n yarar?na hareketler olmuÅŸlard?r. Proletarya hareketi ise ezici çoÄŸunluÄŸun ezici çoÄŸunluk yarar?na ba??ms?z hareketidir.

But at the entrance to science, as at the entrance to hell, the demand must be posted: 'Qui si convien lasciare ogni sospetto; Ogni vilta convien che qui sia morta.' Here all suspicion needs must be abandoned, ?All cowardice must needs be here extinct

EleÅŸtiri, zinciri süsleyen hayali çiçekleri, insan bu gerçek d??? süslerden soyulmuÅŸ prangalar? ta??s?n diye deÄŸil, zincirleri f?rlat?p ats?n ve canl? çiçeÄŸe uzans?n diye kopartm??t?r.

All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

Komünistler, her yerde bugünkü toplumsal ve siyasal düzene kar?? her devrimci hareketi desteklerler.

The premises from which we begin are not arbitrary ones, not dogmas, but real premises from which abstraction can only be made in the imagination. They are the real individuals, their activity and the material conditions under which they live, both those which they find already existing and those produced by their activity. These premises can thus be verified in a purely empirical way.

By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make that labouring power during the whole day or week.

Religion is the self-consciousness and self-regard of man who has either not yet found or has already lost himself

Le pouvoir politique, à proprement parler, est le pouvoir organisé d'une classe pour l'oppression d'une autre.