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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. | | Uncategorized | |
| A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism. | | Uncategorized | |
| A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism. | | Uncategorized | |
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| All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. | | Uncategorized | |
| Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time | | Art | |
| As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality. | | Uncategorized | |
| But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. 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 | | Uncategorized | |
| Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society | | Health | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. | | Uncategorized | |
| Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list / the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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 | | Uncategorized | |
| Constant revolutionizing of production distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind. | | Uncategorized | |
| Democracy is the road to socialism. | | Democracy | |
