Quotes from Karl Marx

Philosophy does not stand outside the world any more than man's brain is outside him because it is not in his stomach; but philosophy, to be sure, is in the world with its brain before it stands on the earth with its feet, while many other human spheres have long been rooted in the earth and pluck the fruits of the world long before they realize that the 'head' also belongs to this world or that this world is the world of the head.

Circumstances make men just as much as men make circumstances.

The materialist doctrine concerning the changing of circumstances and upbringing forgets that circumstances are changed by men and that it is essential to educate the educator himself. This doctrine must, therefore, divide society into two parts, one of which is superior to society. The coincidence of the changing of circumstances and of human activity or self-changing can be conceived and rationally understood only as revolutionary practice. - Theses On Feuerbach (1845)

Tarihte ne olduysa öyle olmas? gerektiÄŸi, baÅŸka türlü olamayaca?? için öyle olmuÅŸtur

The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got

Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

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.

I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.

Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.

Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.

Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.

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.

Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.

It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.

Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.

Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.

The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.

Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother.

Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.

But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.

Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice.

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.