„Die »Idee« blamierte sich immer, soweit sie von dem »Interesse« unterschieden war.“
— Karl Marx, buch Die heilige Familie
Die heilige Familie (1845), Die heilige Familie, MEW 2, S. 86
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„Der Konsument ist nicht freier als der Produzent. Seine Meinung hängt ab von seinen Mitteln und seinen Bedürfnissen. Beide werden durch seine soziale Lage bestimmt, die wiederum selbst abhängt von der allgemeinen sozialen Organisation.“
— Karl Marx, buch Das Elend der Philosophie
Das Elend der Philosophie (1847), Das Elend der Philosophie, MEW Bd. 4, S. 75
„Die Menschen sind die Produzenten ihrer Vorstellungen, Ideen pp., aber die wirklichen, wirkenden Menschen, wie sie bedingt sind durch eine bestimmte Entwicklung ihrer Produktivkräfte und des denselben entsprechenden Verkehrs bis zu seinen weitesten Formationen hinauf. Das Bewusstsein kann nie etwas Andres sein als das bewusste Sein, und das Sein der Menschen ist ihr wirklicher Lebensprozeß.“
— Karl Marx, buch Die deutsche Ideologie
Die deutsche Ideologie (1845), Die deutsche Ideologie. Marx/Engels, MEW 3, S. 26, 1846/1932
„Atheismus, [letzte] Stufe des Theismus, der negativen Anerkennung Gottes“
— Karl Marx, buch Die heilige Familie
Die heilige Familie (1845), Die heilige Familie, MEW 2, S. 116
„Die Zentralisation der Produktionsmittel und die Vergesellschaftung der Arbeit erreichen einen Punkt, wo sie unverträglich werden mit ihrer kapitalistischen Hülle. Sie wird gesprengt. Die Stunde des kapitalistischen Privateigentums schlägt. Die Expropriateure werden expropriiert.“
— Karl Marx, buch Das Kapital
Das Kapital (1867), Das Kapital. Band 1. Siebenter Abschnitt: Der Akkumulationsprozess des Kapitals. MEW 23, S. 791
„Das Kapital ist verstorbne Arbeit, die sich nur vampirmäßig belebt durch Einsaugung lebendiger Arbeit und um so mehr lebt, je mehr sie davon einsaugt.“
— Karl Marx, buch Das Kapital
Das Kapital (1867), Das Kapital. Band 1. Dritter Abschnitt: Die Produktion des absoluten Mehrwerts. MEW 23, S. 247
„Après moi le déluge! [Anm. Wikiquote: Nach mir die Sintflut! ] ist der Wahlruf jedes Kapitalisten und jeder Kapitalistennation.“
— Karl Marx, buch Das Kapital
Das Kapital (1867), Das Kapital. Band I., Abt. III., 8., 5. zeno.org http://www.zeno.org/nid/20009217916. MEW 23, S. 285
„Die Anatomie des Menschen ist ein Schlüssel zur Anatomie des Affen. Die Andeutungen auf Höhres in den untergeordneten Tierarten können dagegen nur verstanden werden, wenn das Höhere selbst schon bekannt ist. Die bürgerliche Ökonomie liefert so den Schlüssel zur antiken etc. Keineswegs aber in der Art der Ökonomen, die alle historischen Unterschiede verwischen und in allen Gesellschaftsformen die bürgerlichen sehen.“
— Karl Marx, buch Grundrisse der Kritik der politischen Ökonomie
Grundrisse (1857-58), Grundrisse, Einleitung [zur Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie], 1857, MEW 13, S. 636
„Aber wir können nicht immer den Stand ergreifen, zu dem wir uns berufen glauben; unsere Verhältnisse in der Gesellschaft haben einigermaßen schon begonnen, ehe wir sie zu bestimmen imstande sind.“
— Karl Marx
Betrachtungen eines Jünglings bei der Wahl seines Berufes. (Abiturientenarbeit) MEW 40, S. 592
„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.“
— Karl Marx, buch Ökonomisch-philosophische Manuskripte aus dem Jahre 1844
Paris Manuscripts (1844), Private Property and Communism, p. 43.
„The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament.“
— Karl Marx
Misattributed, Actually from State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin, paraphrasing Marx in The Civil War in France.
„The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.“
— Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
Die Philosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden interpretirt; es kommt aber darauf an, sie zu verändern.
http://books.google.com/books?id=xyc9AAAAYAAJ&q=%22Die+Philosophen+haben+die+Welt+nur+verschieden%22+%22es+kommt+aber+darauf+an+sie+zu+ver%C3%A4ndern%22&pg=PA72#v=onepage
"Theses on Feuerbach" (1845), Thesis 11, Marx Engels Selected Works,(MESW), Volume I, p. 15; these words are also engraved upon his grave.
First published as an appendix to the pamphlet Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy by Friedrich Engels (1886)
„His latest proclamation, which is drafted in the same style, the manifesto abolishing slavery, is the most important document in American history since the establishment of the Union, tantamount to the tearing up of the old American Constitution.“
— Karl Marx
Comments on the North American Events (1862), Context: Lincoln’s proclamation is even more important than the. Lincoln is a sui generis figure in the annals of history. He has no initiative, no idealistic impetus, cothurnus, no historical trappings. He gives his most important actions always the most commonplace form. Other people claim to be “fighting for an idea”, when it is for them a matter of square feet of land. Lincoln, even when he is motivated by, an idea, talks about “square feet”. He sings the bravura aria of his part hesitatively, reluctantly and unwillingly, as though apologising for being compelled by circumstances “to act the lion”. The most redoubtable decrees — which will always remain remarkable historical documents-flung by him at the enemy all look like, and are intended to look like, routine summonses sent by a lawyer to the lawyer of the opposing party, legal chicaneries, involved, hidebound actiones juris. His latest proclamation, which is drafted in the same style, the manifesto abolishing slavery, is the most important document in American history since the establishment of the Union, tantamount to the tearing up of the old American Constitution.
„The entire process seems simple and natural, i. e., possesses the naturalness of a shallow rationalism.“
— Karl Marx, buch Das Kapital
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893), Vol. II, Ch. III, p. 95.
„Therefore all the physical and intellectual senses have been replaced by the simple estrangement of all these senses – the sense of having.“
— Karl Marx
Context: Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as capital or when we directly possess, eat, drink, wear, inhabit it, etc., in short, when we use it. Although private property conceives all these immediate realizations of possession only as means of life; and the life they serve is the life of private property, labor, and capitalization. Therefore all the physical and intellectual senses have been replaced by the simple estrangement of all these senses – the sense of having. So that it might give birth to its inner wealth, human nature had to be reduced to this absolute poverty.
Early Writings, translated and ed. by , p. 159. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/epm/3rd.htm
„When Engels and I first joined the secret Communist Society we made it a condition that everything tending to encourage superstitious belief in authority was to be removed from the statutes.“
— Karl Marx
Context: Neither of us cares a straw for popularity. A proof of this is for example, that, because of aversion to any personality cult, I have never permitted the numerous expressions of appreciation from various countries with which I was pestered during the existence of the International to reach the realm of publicity, and have never answered them, except occasionally by a rebuke. When Engels and I first joined the secret Communist Society we made it a condition that everything tending to encourage superstitious belief in authority was to be removed from the statutes.
Remarks against personality cults from a letter to W. Blos (10 November 1877).
„We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror. But the royal terrorists, the terrorists by the grace of God and the law, are in practice brutal, disdainful, and mean, in theory cowardly, secretive, and deceitful, and in both respects disreputable.“
— Karl Marx
Context: Did you not read our articles about the June revolution, and was not the essence of the June revolution the essence of our paper?
Why then your hypocritical phrases, your attempt to find an impossible pretext?
We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror. But the royal terrorists, the terrorists by the grace of God and the law, are in practice brutal, disdainful, and mean, in theory cowardly, secretive, and deceitful, and in both respects disreputable.
The final issue of Neue Rheinische Zeitung (18 May 1849)'Marx-Engels Gesamt-Ausgabe, Vol. VI, p. 503,
Variant translation: We are ruthless and ask no quarter from you. When our turn comes we shall not disguise our terrorism.
„In like manner, the beginner who has learned a new language always translates it back into his mother tongue, but he assimilates the spirit of the new language and expresses himself freely in it only when he moves in it without recalling the old and when he forgets his native tongue.“
— Karl Marx
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852), Context: Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honored disguise and borrowed language. Thus Luther put on the mask of the Apostle Paul, the Revolution of 1789-1814 draped itself alternately in the guise of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, and the Revolution of 1848 knew nothing better to do than to parody, now 1789, now the revolutionary tradition of 1793-95. In like manner, the beginner who has learned a new language always translates it back into his mother tongue, but he assimilates the spirit of the new language and expresses himself freely in it only when he moves in it without recalling the old and when he forgets his native tongue.
When we think about this conjuring up of the dead of world history, a salient difference reveals itself. Camille Desmoulins, Danton, Robespierre, St. Just, Napoleon, the heroes as well as the parties and the masses of the old French Revolution, performed the task of their time – that of unchaining and establishing modern bourgeois society – in Roman costumes and with Roman phrases.
„Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.“
— Karl Marx
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852), Context: Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honored disguise and borrowed language. Thus Luther put on the mask of the Apostle Paul, the Revolution of 1789-1814 draped itself alternately in the guise of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, and the Revolution of 1848 knew nothing better to do than to parody, now 1789, now the revolutionary tradition of 1793-95. In like manner, the beginner who has learned a new language always translates it back into his mother tongue, but he assimilates the spirit of the new language and expresses himself freely in it only when he moves in it without recalling the old and when he forgets his native tongue.
When we think about this conjuring up of the dead of world history, a salient difference reveals itself. Camille Desmoulins, Danton, Robespierre, St. Just, Napoleon, the heroes as well as the parties and the masses of the old French Revolution, performed the task of their time – that of unchaining and establishing modern bourgeois society – in Roman costumes and with Roman phrases.
