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“In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.”

Quote by Karl Marx

Book:Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production

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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production

This seminal text delves into the principles and mechanisms of capitalist production, offering an in-depth analysis of economic processes and their political implications. 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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Knows Real England London Forests Fats Parks Deer Cattle

Book:Capital, Volume I: A Critique of Political Economy

Source: Capital, Volume I: A Critique of Political Economy

“A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation.”

Individual Process Productions Determined Meant To Be Duration Circuits Circulation Turnover

Book:Capital: The process of circulation of capital

Source: Capital: The process of circulation of capital

“The labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.”

Long Hands Process Function Productions Repeats Labour Capitalist Commodity Revenue Labourers

Book:Capital

Source: Capital

“It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only momentarily, and at that always only as the harbinger of a coming crisis.”

Enjoy Class Conditions Independent Crisis Prosperity Productions Permit Relative Capitalist Working Class Harbinger

Book:Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: .. Karl Marx: Capital vol.II

Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: .. Karl Marx: Capital vol.II

“In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.”

Should Ideas Responsibility Competition Shoulders Meaningless Economist Explaining

Book:Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works

Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works

“The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.”

Art Enjoy Objects Products Sensitive

Book:Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy

Source: Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy

“Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?”

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Author:Karl Marx

“It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.”

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Book:Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works

Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works

“Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the conflict between existence and essence, objectification and self-affirmation, freedom and necessity, individual and species. It is the riddle of history solved and knows itself as the solution.”

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Book:Marx: Selected Writings

Source: Marx: Selected Writings

“The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.”

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Book:Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy

Source: Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy