Author of quotes: Karl Marx. Page 3

Contempt for oneself is a snake that always irritate and gnaws at the heart, it sucks the life-giving blood, infuses into it the poison of misanthropy and despair.

All I know is that I am not a Marxist!

To be radical means to grasp the thing in its root. But the root for man is man himself.

At the entrance to science, as at the entrance to hell must demand: "Here it is necessary that the soul was strong; here the fear should not give advice."

The cost of labor is determined by the usual cost of necessary life tools of the average worker.

Modern industry never accounted and treats the existing form of a production process as final.

Means of labor is killing a worker.

The means of labor, acting like a machine, immediately becomes a competitor of the worker himself.

The struggle between the capitalist and the wage-worker begins with the emergence of capitalist relations.

In the textiles and craft work causes the tool to serve themselves, at the factory he serves a machine.

If the machine is the most powerful means of increasing productivity, i.e. the reduction of working time required for the production of goods, as the bearer of capital, it becomes, first of all, in directly captured by the industries most powerful means of lengthening the working day beyond all natural limits.

Previously the worker sold his own labour power that he possessed as formally free personality. Now he sells wife and children. He becomes a slave trader.

But now capital buys a minor or minors.

The cost of labor determined by the labor time necessary for the existence not only of individual adult worker, but also working families.