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Karl Marx
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“(That is it!)”
Karl Marx (1818–1883) said by 1883 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Capitals accumulate faster than the population; thus wages; thus population; thus grain prices; thus the difficulty of production and hence the exchange values.”
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“The devil take this wrong arithmetic. But never mind.”
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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.”
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“Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.”
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“Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital, in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit.”
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“The circulation of capital realizes value, while living labour creates value.”
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“Something that is merely negative creates nothing.”
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“Money is itself a product of circulation.”
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“Die Gesellschaft besteht nicht aus Individuen, sondern drückt die Summe der Beziehungen, Verhältnisse aus, worin diese Individuen zueinander stehn.”
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“Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression…”
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“The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity.”
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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.”
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“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?”
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“It is impossible to pursue this nonsense any further.”
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“The South has conquered nothing — but a graveyard.”
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“Reason nevertheless prevails in world history.”
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“Lincoln's place in the history of the United States and of mankind will, nevertheless, be next to that of Washington!”
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“Hegel once observed that comedy is in act superior to tragedy and humourous reasoning superior to grandiloquent reasoning. Although Lincoln does not possess the grandiloquence of historical action, as an average man of the people he has its humour.”
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“Every beginning is difficult" holds in every science.”
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“I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.”
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“The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.”
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“We suffer not only from the development of capitalist production, but also from the incompleteness of that development. Alongside the modern evils, we are oppressed by a whole series of inherited evils, arising from the passive survival of archaic and outmoded modes of production, with their accompanying train of anachronistic social and political relations. We suffer not only from the living, but from the dead. Le mort saisit le vif!”
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Recorded in: Preface to the First Edition, Capital Volume 1, Peinguin Classics edition 1976.
“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.”
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“The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.”
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“The commodity is first of all, an external object, a thing which through its qualities satisfies human needs of whatever kind. The nature of these needs, whether they arise, for example, from the stomach, or the imagination, makes no difference. Nor does it matter here how the thing satisfies man's need, whether directly as a means of subsistence, i.e. an object of consumption, or indirectly as a means of production”
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“To discover the various use of things is the work of history.”
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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.”
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“Every commodity is compelled to chose some other commodity for its equivalent.”
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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.”
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“The whole mystery of commodities, all the magic and necromancy that surrounds the products of labor as long as they take the form of commodities, vanishes therefore, so soon as we come to other forms of production.”
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“A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood.Its analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.”
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“There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.”
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“Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.”
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“The law of gravity thus asserts itself when a house falls about our ears.”
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“The religious world is but the reflex of the real world.”
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“Money is a crystal formed of necessity in the course of the exchanges, whereby different products of labour are practically equated to one another and thus by practice converted into commodities.”
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“Capital is money: Capital is commodities. […] For the movement, in the course of which it adds surplus-value, is its own movement, its expansion, therefore, is automatic expansion. Because it is value, it has acquired the occult quality of being able to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.”
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“Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.”
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“We see then, commodities are in love with money, but "the course of true love never did run smooth".”
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“Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.”
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“Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.”
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“Capital is money, capital is commodities. … By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.”
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“It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.”
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“And his money he cannot eat.”
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“The way to Hell is paved with good intentions, and he might just as easily have intended to make money, without producing at all.”
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“A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst of architects from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.”
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“— man's heart is a wonderful thing, especially when carried in the purse —”
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“Capital is dead labor, that vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.”
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“In every stock-jobbing swindle everyone knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbour, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.”
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