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Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.

Karl Marx

Writing, Goes On, Lasts

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Labor, being itself a commodity, is measured as such by the labor time needed to produce the labor-commodity. And what is needed to produce this labor-commodity? Just enough labor time to produce the objects indispensable to the constant maintenance of labor, that is, to keep the worker alive and in a condition to propagate his race. The natural price of labor is no other than the wage minimum.

Karl Marx

Race, Maintenance, Alive

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)”, p.326, Delphi Classics

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The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere. The bourgeoisie has, through its exploitation of the world market, given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. To the great chagrin of reactionaries, it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood.

Karl Marx

Country, Character, Feet

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As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the good side of slavery. I do not mean indirect slavery, the slavery of proletariat; I mean direct slavery, the slavery of the Blacks in Surinam, in Brazil, in the southern regions of North America. Direct slavery is as much the pivot upon which our present-day industrialism turns as are machinery, credit, etc. … Slavery is therefore an economic category of paramount importance.

Karl Marx

Mean, America, Southern

Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). “German socialist philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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

Karl Marx

Might, Paper, Paradoxical

"Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, Notebook VII, The Chapter on Capital, p. 734, 1857-1858.

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In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.

Karl Marx

Historical, Gentleman, Revolution

Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.296, Oxford University Press, USA

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The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.

Karl Marx

Church, Income, Pardon

Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.51, OUP Oxford

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In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.

Karl Marx

Struggle, Class, Bourgeoisie

BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.52, BookCaps Study Guides

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

Karl Marx

Commodity, Circulation, Originals

Karl Marx (1973). “Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy”, Vintage Books USA

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...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts itself over the general. Every demand for the most simple bourgeois financial reform, for the most ordinary liberalism, for the most commonplace republicanism, for the flattest democracy is forthwith punished as an assault upon society and is branded as Socialism.

Karl Marx

Simple, Class, Circles

Karl Marx (2008). “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

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The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.

Karl Marx

Bricks And Mortar, Battle, Bourgeoisie

Karl Marx, Terrell Carver (1996). “Marx: Later Political Writings”, p.202, Cambridge University Press

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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

Karl Marx

Philosophical, Mad, Gone

Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.171, Cosimo, Inc.

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It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.

Karl Marx

Democracies Have, Years, Democracy

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As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.

Karl Marx

Toil, Beast, Instruments

Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Bibbins Aveling, Friedrich Engels (1961). “Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production”

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Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.

Karl Marx

Believe, Eye, Magic

Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.454, Oxford University Press, USA

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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.

Karl Marx

Business, Sight, Analysis

Karl Marx (1988). “Marx Selections”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.

Karl Marx

Dog, Book, Economics

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1956). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Selected Correspondence, [1843-1895].”

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

Karl Marx

Simple, Gold, Commodity

Karl Marx (2016). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume I: The Economist”, p.27, VM eBooks

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Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle.

Karl Marx

Horse, Doctors, Law

Karl Marx (1975). “Early writings”, Vintage

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Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.

Karl Marx

War, Hero, Debt

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A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

Karl Marx

Wisdom, Income, Politics

BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.84, BookCaps Study Guides

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A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children.

Karl Marx

Children, Yesterday, Blood

Karl Marx (2016). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume I: The Economist”, p.450, VM eBooks

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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.

Karl Marx

Dog, Long Ago, Gone

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.63, Haymarket Books

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...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.

Karl Marx

Doe, Compulsion, Realms

Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole”, p.954, Cosimo, Inc.

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There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.

Karl Marx

Different, Commodity, Relation

Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.83, Cosimo, Inc.

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Born: May 5, 1818
Died: March 14, 1883
Occupation: Philosopher
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