Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Quote by Karl Marx

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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, &...

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, &...

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a...

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a...

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social...

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social...

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if...

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if...

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

Religion is the opium of the masses

Religion is the opium of the masses

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois...

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois...

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a...

In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a...

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine...

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine...

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the...

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the...

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to...

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to...

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings...

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings...

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, &...

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, &...

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does...

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does...

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.