Zitate Karl Marx
— Karl Marx, buch Grundrisse der Kritik der politischen Ökonomie
Grundrisse (1857/58)
Marx an Engels, 1862, MEW 30, 257, books.google.de https://books.google.de/books?id=c04rAQAAIAAJ&q=nigger&hl=en
Aus Privatbriefen
— Karl Marx, buch Das Kapital
Karl Marx - Friedrich Engels - Werke, Band 25, "Das Kapital", Bd. III, Siebenter Abschnitt, 48 III, S. 825, Dietz Verlag, Berlin/DDR 1983 zeno.org http://www.zeno.org/nid/20009220615
Das Kapital (1867)
über Wilhelm Liebknecht ("das Vieh") und dessen Rede „Ueber die politische Stellung der Sozial-Demokratie“ auf der Sitzung des Berliner Demokratischen Arbeitervereins vom 31. Mai 1869. Brief an Friedrich Engels in Manchester, [London] 10. August 1869. MEW 32, S. 360 Nr. 214
Über andere Personen
Betrachtungen eines Jünglings bei der Wahl seines Berufes. (Abiturientenarbeit) MEW 40, S. 594 zeno.org http://www.zeno.org/nid/20009222154
Schule und Studium, Betrachtungen eines Jünglings bei der Wahl seines Berufes (1835)
An Abraham Lincoln, Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, im Namen der Internationalen Arbeiterassoziation. In: "Der Social-Demokrat" Nr. 3 vom 30. Dezember 1864. MEW Bd. 16, S. 18 f. mlwerke.de http://www.mlwerke.de/me/me16/me16_018.htm
(engl.: "If resistance to the Slave Power was the reserved watchword of your first election, the triumphant war cry of your re-election is Death to Slavery. [...] The workingmen of Europe [...] consider it an earnest of the epoch to come that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln, the single-minded son of the working class, to lead his country through the matchless struggle for the rescue of an enchained race and the reconstruction of a social world." - marxists.org http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/iwma/documents/1864/lincoln-letter.htm; Papers relating to the Foreign Affairs ... Part I 1866 p. 64
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— Karl Marx, buch Der achtzehnte Brumaire des Louis Bonaparte
Der achtzehnte Brumaire des Louis Bonaparte (1852). MEW 8, S. 115, zeno.org http://www.zeno.org/nid/20009220933
(zugrunde liegt dem folgende Passage aus Hegels Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Geschichte: "Trotzdem sehen wir, daß die edelsten Männer Roms dafürhalten, die Herrschaft Cäsars sei etwas Zufälliges, und der ganze Zustand desselben sei an seine Individualität gebunden: so Cicero, so Brutus und Cassius; sie glaubten, wenn dies eine Individuum entfernt sei, so sei auch von selbst die Republik wieder da. Durch diesen merkwürdigen Irrtum befangen, ermordeten Brutus, ein höchst edles Individuum, und Cassius, tatkräftiger als Cicero, den Mann, dessen Tugenden sie schätzten. Unmittelbar darauf aber zeigte es sich, daß nur einer den römischen Staat leiten könne, und nun mußten die Römer daran glauben; wie denn überhaupt eine Staatsumwälzung gleichsam im Dafürhalten der Menschen sanktioniert wird, wenn sie sich wiederholt. So ist Napoleon zweimal unterlegen, und zweimal vertrieb man die Bourbonen. Durch die Wiederholung wird das, was im Anfang nur als zufällig und möglich erschien, zu einem Wirklichen und Bestätigten." - Hegel: Sämtliche Werke, hrsg. von Georg Lasson, Band VIII,2, Felix Meiner Leipzig 1912, S. 712 archive.org https://archive.org/stream/smtlichewerke81hege#page/712/mode/2up
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— Karl Marx, buch Die deutsche Ideologie
Quelle: The German Ideology (1845/46), International Publishers, ed. Chris Arthur, p. 103.
— Karl Marx, buch Die deutsche Ideologie
The German Ideology (1845/46)
Kontext: The fact is, therefore, that definite individuals who are productively active in a definite way enter into these definite social and political relations. Empirical observation must in each separate instance bring out empirically, and without any mystification and speculation, the connection of the social and political structure with production. The social structure and the state are continually evolving out of the life-process of definite individuals, but of individuals, not as they appear in their own or other people's imagination, but as they really are; i. e. as they are effective, produce materially, and are active under definite material limits, presuppositions and conditions independent of their will.
The production of ideas, of conceptions, of consciousness, is at first directly interwoven with the material activity and the material intercourse of men, the language of real life. Conceiving, thinking, the mental intercourse of men, appear at this stage as the direct efflux of their material behaviour. The same applies to mental production as expressed in the language of the politics, laws, morality, religion, metaphysics of a people. Men are the producers of their conception, ideas, etc. — real, active men, as they are conditioned by a definite development of their productive forces and of the intercourse corresponding to these, up to its furthest forms. Consciousness can never be anything else than conscious existence, and the existence of men is their actual life-process. If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from their physical life-process.
Attributed to Marx (possibly in jest) in W. C. Privy's Original Bathroom Companion (2003).
Misattributed
— Karl Marx, buch Die deutsche Ideologie
Vol. I, Part 4.
The German Ideology (1845/46)
Kontext: Communism differs from all previous movements in that it overturns the basis of all earlier relations of production and intercourse, and for the first time consciously treats all natural premises as the creatures of hitherto existing men, strips them of their natural character and subjugates them to the power of the united individuals. Its organisation is, therefore, essentially economic, the material production of the conditions of this unity; it turns existing conditions into conditions of unity. The reality, which communism is creating, is precisely the true basis for rendering it impossible that anything should exist independently of individuals, insofar as reality is only a product of the preceding intercourse of individuals themselves.
— Karl Marx, buch Ökonomisch-philosophische Manuskripte aus dem Jahre 1844
Private Property and Communism, p. 43.
Paris Manuscripts (1844)
Actually from State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin, paraphrasing Marx in The Civil War in France.
Misattributed
Die Philosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden interpretirt; es kommt aber darauf an, sie zu verändern.
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"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)
Quelle: Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
Early Writings, translated and ed. by , p. 159. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/epm/3rd.htm
Kontext: 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.
Remarks against personality cults from a letter to W. Blos (10 November 1877).
Kontext: 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.