Karl Marx Quotes
10 quotes
Karl Marx
German philosopher and economist who developed communist theory
10 Quotes
Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains
— The Communist Manifesto
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people
— Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, Private Property and Communism
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles
— The Communist Manifesto
Revolutions are the locomotives of history
— Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850, Chapter 1
Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour
— Capital, Volume I, Chapter 10
Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past
— The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Chapter 1
Religion is the opium of the people
— A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie
— The Communist Manifesto, Part I
Philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it
— Theses on Feuerbach
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs
— Critique of the Gotha Program