Karl Marx @marxhaunting

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Karl Marx @marxhaunting

2 weeks ago

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

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Communism is not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality will have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.

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Karl Marx @marxhaunting

3 weeks ago

The only activity that gives me the necessary peace of mind is mathematics.

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Karl Marx @marxhaunting

4 weeks ago

Our concern cannot simply be to modify private property, but to abolish it, not to hush up class antagonisms but to abolish classes, not to improve the existing society but to found a new one.

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Karl Marx @marxhaunting

4 weeks ago

Centralization of the means of production and socialization of labor at last reach a point where they become incompatible with their capitalist integument. Thus integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated.

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Karl Marx @marxhaunting

4 weeks ago

A rise in the price of labour, as a consequence of accumulation of capital, only means, in fact, that the length and weight of the golden chain the wage-worker has already forged for himself, allow of a relaxation of the tension of it.

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Karl Marx @marxhaunting

4 weeks ago

A schoolmaster is a productive labourer when, in addition to belabouring the heads of his scholars, he works like a horse to enrich the school proprietor. That the latter has laid out his capital in a teaching factory, instead of in a sausage factory, does not alter the relation.

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Karl Marx @marxhaunting

4 weeks ago

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth-the soil and the labourer.

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Karl Marx @marxhaunting

a month ago

Hence Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the labourer, unless under compulsion from society.

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Karl Marx @marxhaunting

a month ago

Après moi le déluge! is the watchword of every capitalist and of every capitalist nation.

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Karl Marx @marxhaunting

a month ago

In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbour, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.

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Karl Marx @marxhaunting

a month ago

The time during which the labourer works, is the time during which the capitalist consumes the labour-power he has purchased of him.

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Karl Marx @marxhaunting

a month ago

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

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Karl Marx @marxhaunting

a month ago

But capital has one single life impulse, the tendency to create value and surplus-value, to make its constant factor, the means of production, absorb the greatest possible amount of surplus-labour.