A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy Quotes
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“It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.”
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“In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political and intellectual life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness. At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or – this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms – with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an era of social revolution. The changes in the economic foundation lead sooner or later to the transformation of the whole immense superstructure.”
― Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
“If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
[In a letter about the peculiar 'Marxism' which arose in France 1882]”
― Karl Marx
[In a letter about the peculiar 'Marxism' which arose in France 1882]”
― Karl Marx
“If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, connecting me with nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, also the universal agent of separation?”
― Karl Marx, Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844/The Communist Manifesto
― Karl Marx, Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844/The Communist Manifesto
“Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.”
― Karl Marx
― Karl Marx
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