Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to enslave others by means of such appropriations.
The weapon of criticism can never replace the criticism of weapons.
The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism
Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper, etc.
The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.
The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.
The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.
The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity .
There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.
The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.
What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.
Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?
One capitalist always kills many.
The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.
Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.
Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.
Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.
Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.
The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.
We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.
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