Author of quotes: Karl Marx. Page 2

The state needs a very stern education by the people.

The new era differs from the old era, mainly because the whip begins to imagine that she is brilliant.

But few have captured this handful and turned it into an instrument of appropriation of the products of labor, constantly from year to year, renewable overwhelming mass of people. This explains the extreme importance of such instruments for these few... About a third of the annual national product now is taken away from producers in the form of public taxes and unproductively consumed by people who do not give any equivalent, i.e. anything that would have the equivalent value for manufacturers. the Crowd looks in amazement at the accumulated mass, especially if they are concentrated in a few hands. But the annually produced masses, like the eternal, incalculable waves of a mighty stream, roll by and are lost forever in the ocean of consumption. And yet, it is everlasting consumption determines not only the enjoyment, but the existence of the entire human race.

You are horrified at the fact that we want to destroy private property. But in your present society, private property is destroyed to nine-tenths of its members. It exists due to the fact that does not exist for nine-tenths.

How does the bourgeoisie get over these crises? On the one hand, by enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces; on the other hand, by the conquest of new markets and more thorough exploitation of the old ones. What therefore? The fact that she's preparing more extensive and more destructive crises, and by diminishing the means of combating them.

... in those periods when the class struggle nears, the process of decomposition within the ruling class, inside of the old society takes such a violent, such a dramatic character that a small section of the ruling class renounces it and joins the revolutionary class, the class that holds the future. That's why, as before, part of the nobility passed to the bourgeoisie, so now a portion of the bourgeoisie goes over to the proletariat, it is part of the bourgeois ideologists, who have risen to the theoretical understanding of the historical movement.

In bourgeois society the past dominates the present, in Communist society the present dominates the past.

Not the consciousness that determines life, but life determines consciousness.

All the preceding classes that got yourself the upper hand sought to fortify their already acquired status in life, subordinating all of society to their conditions of appropriation. The proletarians cannot become the social productive forces except by abolishing their own previous mode of appropriation, and thereby also every other previous still the mode of appropriation. The proletarians have nothing of their own that would have them protect, they must destroy all that is still guarded and secured private property.

A part of the bourgeoisie is desirous of redressing social grievances in order to secure the continued existence of bourgeois society.
These include economists, philanthropists, Champions of humanity, guardians of the welfare of the working classes, organizers of charity, members of societies for protection of animals, the founding of temperance societies, melkotravchatomu reformers of various types.

In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an Association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

To complaints about physical and spiritual mutilation, premature death, torture, excessive labor, he answers: how can you torment us with these torments, if they increase our pleasure (profit)?

The unity of people with people, based on real differences between people, the concept of human species transferred from the heaven of abstraction to the real earth, what it is, not the concept of society!

Nature does not build machines, locomotives, Railways, electric telegraphs, selectrow etc... All of it created by the human hand organs of the human brain; embodied power of knowledge.