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.