Quotes from Karl Marx

It wishes to see only "useful things" produced, but it forgets that production of too many useful things produces too large a useless population.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.

The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker.

Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.

To discover the various use of things is the work of history.

Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.

The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

...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.

The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.

Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.

Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses

Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.

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.

The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.