Karl Marx: Citations en anglais

Karl Marx était philosophe, sociologue et économiste allemand. Citations en anglais.

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“The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.”

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Author's prefaces to the First Edition.
(Buch I) (1867)

“In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.”

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Vol. I, Ch. 17, Section IV, pg. 581.
(Buch I) (1867)

“A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst of architects from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.”

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Vol. I, Ch. 7, pg. 198.
(Buch I) (1867)

“What strikes one here above all is the crudely empirical conception of profit derived from the outlook of the ordinary capitalist, which wholly contradicts the better esoteric understanding of Adam Smith.”

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Vol. II, Ch. X, p. 202.
(Buch II) (1893)

“He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him. Hence, the cost of production of a workman is restricted, almost entirely, to the means of subsistence that he requires for his maintenance, and for the propagation of his race.”

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Section 1, paragraph 31, lines 3-8.
The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)

“Nor is it the irrationality of the form which is taken as characteristic. On the contrary, one overlooks the irrational.”

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Vol. II, Ch. I, p. 30.
(Buch II) (1893)

“The commodity is first of all, an external object, a thing which through its qualities satisfies human needs of whatever kind. The nature of these needs, whether they arise, for example, from the stomach, or the imagination, makes no difference. Nor does it matter here how the thing satisfies man's need, whether directly as a means of subsistence, i. e. an object of consumption, or indirectly as a means of production”

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Karl Marx livre Le Capital

Vol. I, Ch. 1, Section 1, pg. 41.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)

“A class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increase capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.”

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Section 1, paragraph 30, lines 3-8.
The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)

“A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood. Its analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.”

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Karl Marx livre Le Capital

Vol. I, Ch. 1, Section 4, pg. 81.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)

“Capitals accumulate faster than the population; thus wages; thus population; thus grain prices; thus the difficulty of production and hence the exchange values.”

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Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Source: Notebook III, The Chapter on Capital, p. 271.

“When we have chosen the vocation in which we can contribute most to humanity, burdens cannot bend us because they are only sacrifices for all. Then we experience no meager, limited, egotistic joy, but our happiness belongs to millions, our deeds live on quietly but eternally effective, and glowing tears of noble men will fall on our ashes.”

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Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society, L. Easton, trans. (1967), p. 39
Reflections of a Youth on Choosing an Occupation (1835)

“The only possible solution which will preserve Germany’s honor and Germany’s interest is, we repeat, a war with Russia.”

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Marx-Engels Gesamt-Ausgabe, Erste Abteilung, Volume 7, March to December 1848, p. 304. Leopold Schwartzschild, Karl Marx: The Red Prussian, New York: NY, The Universal Library, Grosset & Dunlap, 1947, p. 202

“Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth — the soil and the labourer.”

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Vol. I, Ch. 15 (last sentence), pg. 556.
(Buch I) (1867)

“A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation.”

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Volume II, Ch. VII, p. 158.
(Buch II) (1893)

“Of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie today, the proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class.”

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Section 1, paragraph 44, lines 1-2.
The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)

“If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.”

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Introduction to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1844).

“For the world to become philosophic amounts to philosophy’s becoming world-order reality; and it means that philosophy, at the same time that it is realized, disappears.”

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Karl Marx livre The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature

The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature (1841)

“Money is itself a product of circulation.”

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(1857/58)
Source: Notebook VI, The Chapter on Capital, p. 579.

“No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.”

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Section 1, paragraph 34.
The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)

“Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression…”

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About Beauty
(1857/58)