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“The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.”

Quote by Karl Marx

Book:The Portable Karl Marx

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The Portable Karl Marx

This volume offers readers a convenient and accessible compilation of Karl Marx's most influential essays, treatises, and letters, providing a comprehensive overview of his intellectual contributions across various disciplines. It includes key texts such as 'The Communist Manifesto' and 'Das Kapital', showcasing Marx's theories on capitalism, class struggle, and the socialist revolution. more

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Karl Marx (May 5, 1818 - March 14, 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, political theorist, and revolutionary. He is one of the founders of Marxism and his works, including 'Das Kapital' and 'The Communist Manifesto', have had a profound impact on the world. more

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“The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.”

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Author:Karl Marx

“Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but deformity for the worker. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back to barbaric labor, and it turns the remainder into machines.”

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Author:Karl Marx

“The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker.”

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Book:Marx: Selected Writings

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“A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production.”

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“If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.”

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“England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia... When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch... and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain.”

“There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not by the offended, but by the offender himself. The first blow dealt to the French monarchy proceeded from the nobility, not from the peasants. The Indian revolt does not commence with the ryots, tortured, dishonoured and stripped naked by the British, but with the sepoys, clad, fed and petted, fatted and pampered by them.”

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“[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose truth we are wholly convinced, one that offers us largest scope in working for humanity and approaching that general goal towards which each profession offers only one of the means: the goal of perfection ... If he works only for himself he can become a famous scholar, a great sage, an excellent imaginative writer [ Dichter ], but never a perfected, a truly great man.”

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Author:Karl Marx

“Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones.”

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Source: Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by Friedrich Engels

“All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital , and allowed to live only so far as the interest to the ruling class requires it.”

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Book:The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English

Source: The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English