Karl Marx Quotes

Biography: Karl Marx is known for his foundational role in the development of com... more Biography: Karl Marx is known for his foundational role in the development of communist ideology. A German philosopher, economist, and revolutionary socialist, he co-authored "The Communist Manifesto" with Friedrich Engels and wrote "Das Kapital," critiquing capitalism. Marx's ideas influenced global historical movements and political systems. less

"The production of ideas of conceptions of consciousness is at first directly interwoven with the material activity and the material intercourse of men the language of real life""Revolutions are the locomotives of history""Go on get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough""The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property""Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations the relations within which these individuals stand""The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament""The more of himself man attributes to God the less he has left in himself""Men make their own history but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances but under circumstances existing already given and transmitted from the past""Capital is dead labor which vampire-like lives only by sucking living labor and lives the more the more labor it sucks""Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form""The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs""The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class""The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property""Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity""The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people""The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas""Democracy is the road to socialism.""Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.""The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.""Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains."

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