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• Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena

  Karl Marx

  Essence, Invisible, Form

  Karl Marx (1977). “Capital: a critique of political economy”, Vintage

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• Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.

  Karl Marx

  Kings, Church, Helping

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• It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

  Karl Marx

  Nature, Law, Different

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• All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

  Karl Marx

  Essence, Would Be, Appearance

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.532, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market.

  Karl Marx

  House, Construction, Process

  Karl Marx (1997). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: .. Karl Marx: Capital vol.II”

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• Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.

  Karl Marx

  May, Dirt

  Karl Marx (2016). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume I: The Economist”, p.51, VM eBooks

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• The weapon of criticism can never replace the criticism of weapons.

  Karl Marx

  Criticism, Weapons

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• And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives, at the head of the counter-revolution -- what awaits them?

  Karl Marx

  Revolution, Jew, Emancipation

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”, Intl Pub

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• Merely quantitative differences,
  beyond a certain point,
  pass into qualitative changes.

  Karl Marx

  Knowledge, Differences, Certain

  Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.322, OUP Oxford

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• The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.

  Karl Marx

  Style, Rifles, Citizens

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)”, p.632, Delphi Classics

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• Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

  Karl Marx

  Medicine, Doubt, Disease

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• We cannot tell by looking at the diamond that it is a commodity. When it serves as a use-value, asthetic or mechanical, on the breast of a harlot, or in the hand of a glasscutter, it is a diamond and not a commodity.

  Karl Marx

  Hands, Use, Commodity

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• By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of the private capitalists and usurers. But at the same time, banking and credit become the most effective means of driving captialist production beyond its own limits and one of the most effective vehicles of crises and swindle.

  Karl Marx

  Taken, Mean, Hands

  Karl Marx (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Karl Marx: Capital, Vol. 3”, International Pub

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• What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist. This is so much the case that I do not know whether by the English Law, but certainly by some Continental Laws, the maximum time is fixed for which a man is allowed to sell his laboring power. If allowed to do so for any indefinite period whatever, slavery would be immediately restored. Such a sale, if it comprised his lifetime, for example, would make him at once the lifelong slave of his employer.

  Karl Marx

  Work, Men, Law

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

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• Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.

  Karl Marx

  Gold, Buying Gold, Silver

  Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.126, OUP Oxford

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• Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Hands, Class

  Karl Marx (1974). “Capital: The process of circulation of capital”

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• Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Long, Coins

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.145, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Race, Years

  Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.72, OUP Oxford

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• All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital , and allowed to live only so far as the interest to the ruling class requires it.

  Karl Marx

  Character, Class, Want

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.60, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Long, Doe

  Karl Marx (2001). “Marxism, Socialism and Religion”, p.20, Resistance Books

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• If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy in pursuit of criminal designs, playing upon national prejudices, and squandering in piratical wars the people's blood and treasure? It was not the wisdom of the ruling classes, but the heroic resistance to their criminal folly by the working classes of England, that saved the west of Europe from plunging headlong into an infamous crusade for the propagation of slavery on the other side of the Atlantic.

  Karl Marx

  War, Blood, Europe

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.581, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.

  Karl Marx

  Animal, Men, Delight

  Karl Marx (1932). “Capital: The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings”

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• All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

  Karl Marx

  Money, Earth, Cash

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• Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but deformity for the worker. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back to barbaric labor, and it turns the remainder into machines.

  Karl Marx

  Work, Palaces, Machines

  "Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts". Book by Karl Marx, "Alienated Labor" (p. 135), 1983.

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• An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Increase, Labour

  Karl Marx (2005). “Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy”, Penguin UK

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