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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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.

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, &...

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand

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

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.

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.

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...

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

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 philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to...

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to...

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.

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the...

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the...