Karl Marx Quotes on Life
Karl Marx was a 19th-century German philosopher, economist, historian, and revolutionary socialist whose work founded the tradition of thought that bears his name. This page collects quotes attributed to Karl Marx on the topic of life, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour.”
Vol. I, Ch. 10, Section 1, p. 257. -
“1837 , as quoted in Karl Marx: His Life and Thought by David McLellan, p. 22. See also M. Rubel, "Les Cahiers d'études de Karl Marx (1840-1853)", International Review of Social History ( 1957 )”
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“In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.”
Das Kapital(Buch I)(1867) | Vol. I, Ch. 17, Section IV, pg. 581. -
“The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.”
The German Ideology(1845-1846) | Volume I; Part 1; "Feuerbach. Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook"; Section A, "Idealism and Materialism ". -
“Capital is dead labor, that vampire -like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.”
Das Kapital(Buch I)(1867) | Vol. I, Ch. 10, Section 1, p. 257. -
“Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy.”
Das Kapital(Buch II)(1893) | Vol. II, Ch. XX, p. 449.