Quote

But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.

Karl Marx

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Karl Marx
Age: 64 †
Born: 1818
Born: May 5
Died: 1883
Died: March 14
Economist
Historian
Journalist
Philosopher
Poet
Politician
Revolutionary
Sociologist
Treveris
Karl Heinrich Marx
Marx
Negation
Begets
Capitalist
Production
Productions
Law
Nature

More quotes by Karl Marx

Image
[T]he task of abolishing the essence of Jewry is in truth the task of abolishing Jewry in civil society, abolishing the inhumanity of today's practice of life, the summit of which is the money system.
Karl Marx
Image
Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.
Karl Marx
Image
The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities.
Karl Marx
Image
Music is the mirror of reality.
Karl Marx
Image
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
Karl Marx
Image
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
Karl Marx
Image
It's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way.
Karl Marx
Image
These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time.
Karl Marx
Image
If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.
Karl Marx
Image
...the French Revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order. The revolutionary movement which began in 1789... gave rise to the communist idea which Babeuf's friend Buonarroti re-introduced in France after the Revolution of 1830. This idea, consistently developed, is the idea of the new world order.
Karl Marx
Image
If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, the universal agent of separation?
Karl Marx
Image
Communism begins where atheism begins.
Karl Marx
Image
In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
Karl Marx
Image
...the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.
Karl Marx
Image
Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.
Karl Marx
Image
If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.
Karl Marx
Image
The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.
Karl Marx
Image
Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex.
Karl Marx
Image
The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got
Karl Marx
Image
Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough.
Karl Marx