Karl Heinrich Marx Quotes

What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development of production; that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; and that dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.

In manufacture and in handicrafts, the worker uses a tool; in the factory, he serves a machine.

The instruments of labour, when they assume the form of machinery, acquire a kind of material existence which involves the replacement of human forces by the forces of Nature, and of rule-of-thumb methods by the purposeful application of natural science.

The production of surplus-value, or the extraction of surplus labour, is the specific end and aim, the sum and substance, of capitalist production.

The product of mental labour—science—always stands far below its value, because the labour-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labour-time required for its original production.