Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
Das Kapital ist verstorbne Arbeit, die sich nur vampyrmaessig belebt durch Einsaugung lebendiger Arbeit und um so mehr lebt, je mehr sie davon einsaugt.
Philosophers
Karl Marx
Born in 1818 in Trier, Prussia, Karl Marx inverted Hegelian dialectics into materialism and constructed historical materialism, locating the driving force of history in economic relations of production. With Engels he authored The Communist Manifesto, presenting the theory of class struggle, and in his life's work Das Kapital he dissected the structural contradictions of capitalism through the concept of surplus value. His analytical methods transformed the methodology of social science as a whole.
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Karl Marx's Other Quotes
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
Being determines consciousness.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Workers of all lands, unite!