Quotes About Social

A house may be large or small; as long as the surrounding houses are equally small it satisfies all social demands for a dwelling. If a palace rises besides the little house, the little house shrinks into a hut.

It is not social consciousness that determines social being, but social being that determines social consciousness.

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

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

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

In a future society, in which class antagonism will have ceased, in which there will no longer be any classes, use will no longer be determined by the minimum time of production; but the time of social production devoted to different articles will be determined by the degree of their social utility.

Hay necesidad de una gran perspicacia para comprender que los conocimientos, las nociones y las concepciones, en una palabra, la conciencia del hombre, cambia con toda modificación sobrevenida en las relaciones sociales, en la existencia colectiva? ¿Qué demuestra la historia del pensamiento sino que la producción intelectual se transforma con la producción material?

From the moment when labour can no longer be converted into capital, money, or rent, into a social power capable of being monopolised, i.e., from the moment when individual property can no longer be transformed into bourgeois property, into capital, from that moment, you say individuality vanishes.

Capital consists not only of means of subsistence, instruments of labour and raw materials, not only of material products; it consists just as much of exchange values. All the products of which it consists are commodities. Capital is, therefore, not only a sum of material products; it is a sum of commodities, of exchange values, of social magnitudes.

Feuerbach consequently does not see that the 'religious sentiment' is itself a social product, and that the abstract individual that he analyses belongs in reality to a particular social form.

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

In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things.

What makes them representatives of the petty bourgeoisie is the fact that in their minds they do not get beyond the limits which the latter do not get beyond in life, that they are consequently driven, theoretically, to the same problems and solutions to which material interest and social position drive the latter in practice. This is, in general, the relationship between the political and literary representatives of a class and the class they represent.

Maddi yaÅŸamdaki üretim biçimi, yaÅŸam?n toplumsal, siyasal ve düÅŸünsel sürecinin genel niteliÄŸine egemendir. Ä°nsanlar?n varl?klar?n? belirleyen ÅŸey, bilinçleri deÄŸildir; tam tersine, onlar?n bilinçlerini, toplumsal varl?klar? belirler.

To be a capitalist, is to have not only a purely personal, but a social, status in production. Capital is a collective product, and only by the united action of many members, nay, in the last resort, only by the united action of all members of society, can it be set in motion. Capital is, therefore, not a personal, it is a social power.

When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch, the market of the world and the modern powers of production, and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain.

La burguesía … ha creado fuerzas productivas mucho más colosales y masivas que todas las pasadas generaciones juntas, …¿Cuál de los pasados siglos pudo sospechar siquiera que en el seno del trabajo social dormitasen tantas y tales fuerzas productivas?

La historia de todas las sociedades, hasta nuestros días es la historia de la lucha de las clases. Hombres libres y esclavos, patricios y plebeyos, señores y siervos, maestros y oficiales, en una palabra: opresores y oprimidos se enfrentaron siempre, mantuvieron una lucha constante, velada unas veces y otras franca y abierta, lucha que terminó siempre con la transformación revolucionaria de toda la sociedad o el hundimiento de las clases en pugna.

The social revolution of the nineteenth century cannot take its poetry from the past but only from the future.

La época de la burguesía se caracteriza y distingue de todas las demás por el constante y agitado desplazamiento de la producción, por la conmoción ininterrumpida de todas las relaciones sociales, por una inquietud y una dinámica incesantes.

The standpoint of the old materialism is civil society; the standpoint of the new is human society, or social humanity. - Theses On Feuerbach (1845)

All social life is essentially practical. All mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice. - Theses On Feuerbach (1845)

it is the universal class because its sufferings are universal. He thus defined the proletariat in the first instance not as the body of factory workers but as the metaphysical demiurge destined to liberate the species from social inequality: it was as the victim class that it became the redeemer class, the class to end all classes.

Communists] openly declare that their ends can only be attained by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.