Karl Marx citáty: 42 podnětných slov filozofa a ekonoma, odhalujících revoluční myšlenky

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Karl Marx: Citáty anglicky

“Every one knows that there are no real forests in England. The deer in the parks of the great are demurely domestic cattle, fat as London alderman.”

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Karl Marx kniha Das Kapital

Vol. I, Ch. 27, pg. 803.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)

“So far as living instruments of labour are concerned, for instance horses, their reproduction is timed by nature itself. Their average lifetime as instruments of labour is determined by the laws of nature. As soon as this term has expired they must be replaced by new ones. A horse cannot be replaced piecemeal; it must be replaced by another horse.”

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Karl Marx

Vol. II, Ch. VIII, p. 174.
(Buch II) (1893)

“It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating."”

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Karl Marx

Vol. I, Ch. 5, pg. 182 (on Benjamin Franklin)
(Buch I) (1867)

“These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time.”

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Karl Marx

Vol. II, Ch. XXI, p. 497.
(Buch II) (1893)

“The worker's existence is thus brought under the same condition as the existence of every other commodity. The worker has become a commodity, and it is a bit of luck for him if he can find a buyer, And the demand on which the life of the worker depends, depends on the whim of the rich and the capitalists.”

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Karl Marx kniha Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

Wages of Labor, p. 20.
Paris Manuscripts (1844)

“The South has conquered nothing — but a graveyard.”

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Karl Marx

Comments on the North American Events (1862)

“If we were to hang the last capitalist, another would appear to sell us the rope.”

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Karl Marx

A variant of the above misquote, sometimes also attributed to Lenin. This gained popularity during the glasnost era when black market activity was at its most visible in the USSR; meant to show the profit motive was human nature and cannot be eradicated.
Misattributed

“As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone.”

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Karl Marx

Vol. II, Ch. XX, p. 452.
(Buch II) (1893)

“Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.”

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Karl Marx

Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Zdroj: Introduction, p. 10.

“As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.”

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Karl Marx

Vol. II, Ch. VIII, p. 163.
(Buch II) (1893)

“Something that is merely negative creates nothing.”

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Karl Marx

(1857/58)
Zdroj: Notebook VI, The Chapter on Capital, p. 532.

“Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity”

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Karl Marx

Attributed to Marx (possibly in jest) in W. C. Privy's Original Bathroom Companion (2003).
Misattributed

“It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.”

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Karl Marx

(1857/58)
Zdroj: Notebook VII, The Chapter on Capital, p. 734.

“Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets!”

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Karl Marx

Vol. I, Ch. 24, Section 3, pg. 652.
(Buch I) (1867)

“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.”

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Karl Marx

Zdroj: The German Ideology (1845-1846), Volume I; Part 1; "Feuerbach. Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook"; Section A, "Idealism and Materialism".

“An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.”

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Karl Marx

Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Zdroj: Notebook IV, The Chapter on Capital, p. 308.

“Lincoln’s place in the history of the United States and of mankind will, nevertheless, be next to that of Washington!”

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Karl Marx

Comments on the North American Events (1862)

“Capital is money, capital is commodities. … By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.”

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Karl Marx

Vol. I, Ch. 4, pp. 171–172
(Buch I) (1867)

“In a constantly revolving circle every point is simultaneously a point of departure and a point of return. If we interrupt the rotation, not every point of departure is a point of return.”

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Karl Marx

Vol. II, Ch. IV, p. 104.
(Buch II) (1893)

“No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.”

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Karl Marx

Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Zdroj: Introduction, p. 12.

“What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.”

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Karl Marx

Section 1, paragraph 53, lines 11-13.
The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)

“The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material.”

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Karl Marx

Vol. II, Ch. XV, p. 285.
(Buch II) (1893)

“The circulation of capital realizes value, while living labour creates value.”

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Karl Marx

(1857/58)
Zdroj: Notebook V, The Chapter on Capital, p. 463.

“Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without willing it or knowing it. The real point is not that each individual's pursuit of his private interest promotes the totality of private interests, the general interest. One could just as well deduce from this abstract phrase that each individual reciprocally blocks the assertion of the others' interests, so that, instead of a general affirmation, this war of all against all produces a general negation.”

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Karl Marx

Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Zdroj: Notebook I, The Chapter on Money, p. 76.

“Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same.”

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Karl Marx

Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Zdroj: Notebook I, The Chapter on Money, p. 85.

“The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.”

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Karl Marx

Vol. II, Ch. XX, p. 437.
(Buch II) (1893)

“The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage, in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy.”

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Karl Marx

Vol. I, Ch. 31, pg. 827.
(Buch I) (1867)

“The philosopher, who is himself an abstract form of alienated man, sets himself up as the measure of the alienated world.”

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Karl Marx kniha Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

Der Philosoph legt sich – also selbst eine abstrakte Gestalt des entfremdeten Menschen – als den Maßstab der entfremdeten Welt an.
Paris Manuscripts (1844)

“Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew — not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. … What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money… Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man — and turns them into commodities. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.”

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Karl Marx kniha On the Jewish Question

On the Jewish Question (1843)

“The unity is brought about by force.”

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Karl Marx

Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Zdroj: Notebook I, The Chapter on Money, p. 70.