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

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Karl Marx: Citáty anglicky

“We see then, commodities are in love with money, but "the course of true love never did run smooth."”

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Karl Marx kniha Das Kapital

Vol. I, Ch. 3, Section 2, pg. 121.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)

“It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.”

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Letter from Marx to Arnold Ruge (25 January 1843), after the Prussian government dissolved the newspaper Neue Rheinische Zeitung, of which Marx was the editor.

“We have just seen that, apart from money-capital, circulating capital is only another name for commodity-capital. But to the extent that labour power circulates in the market, it is not capital, no form of commodity-capital. It is not capital at all; the labourer is not a capitalist, although he brings a commodity to market, namely his own skin.”

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Karl Marx kniha Das Kapital

Zdroj: Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893), Vol. II, Ch. X, p. 211.

“Only that position can impart dignity in which we do not appear as servile tools but rather create independently within our circle.”

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Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society, L. Easton, trans. (1967), p. 38
Reflections of a Youth on Choosing an Occupation (1835)

“Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.”

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Zdroj: The German Ideology (1845-1846), Vol. I, Part 1.

“An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.”

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Vol. I, Ch. 15, Section 1, pg. 416.
(Buch I) (1867)

“Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market.”

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Vol. II, Ch. XII, p. 237.
(Buch II) (1893)

“It is impossible to persue this nonsense any further.”

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(1857/58)
Zdroj: (Bastiat and Carey), p. 813 (last text page, second last line).

“Your favourite virtue … Simplicity
Your favourite virtue in man … Strength
Your favourite virtue in woman … Weakness
Your chief characteristic … Singleness of purpose
Your idea of happiness … To fight
Your idea of misery … Submission
The vice you excuse most … Gullibility
The vice you detest most … Servility
Your aversion … Martin Tupper
Favourite occupation … Book-worming
Favourite poet … Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Goethe
Favourite prose-writer … Diderot
Favourite hero … Spartacus, Kepler
Favourite heroine … Gretchen [Heroine of Goethe's Faust]
Favourite flower … Daphne
Favourite colour … Red
Favourite name … Laura, Jenny
Favourite dish … Fish
Favourite maxim … Nihil humani a me alienum puto [Nothing human is alien to me, Terence]
Favourite motto … De omnibus dubitandum”

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Everything must be doubted <br class="br"> Marx's replies to a set of questions given to him by his daughters Jenny and Laura in 1865 http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/04/01.htm

“It is in fact not the consciousness dominating life but the very life dominating consciousness.”

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Zdroj: The German Ideology (1845-1846), Vol. III, 27.

“b>England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating – the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia… When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch… and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain.”

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“The Future Results of British Rule in India,” New York Daily Tribune, 08 August 1853

“Reason nevertheless prevails in world history.”

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Comments on the North American Events (1862)

“In political practice, therefore, they join in all coercive measures against the working class; and in ordinary life, despite the high-falutin phrases, they stoop to pick up the golden apples, and to barter truth, love, and honour for traffic in wool, beet-root sugar, and potato spirits.”

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Section 3, paragraph 9.
The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)

“Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences.”

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

“For capitalism is abolished root and branch by the bare assumption that it is personal consumption and not enrichment that works as the compelling motive.”

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Denn der Kapitalismus ist schon in der Grundlage aufgehoben durch die Voraussetzung, daß der Genuß als treibendes Motiv wirkt, nicht die Bereicherung selbst.
Vol. II, Ch. IV, p. 123.
(Buch II) (1893)

“But simultaneously with the development of capitalist production the credit system also develops. The money-capital which the capitalist cannot as yet employ in his own business is employed by others, who pay him interest for its use.”

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Vol. II, Ch. XVII, p. 325.
(Buch II) (1893)

“I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.”

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

“Everything great glitters, glitter begets ambition, and ambition can easily have caused the inspiration or what we thought to be inspiration. But reason can no longer restrain one who is lured by the fury of ambition. He tumbles where his vehement drive calls him; no longer does he choose his position, but rather chance and luster determine it.
Then we are not called to the position where we can most shine. It is not the one which, in the long succession of years during which we may hold it, will never make us weary, subdue our zeal, or dampen our inspiration. Soon we shall see our wishes unfulfilled and our ideas unsatisfied.”

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Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society, L. Easton, trans. (1967), p. 36
Reflections of a Youth on Choosing an Occupation (1835)

“Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.”

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Vol. I, Ch. 1, Section 2, pg. 49.
(Buch I) (1867)

“Capital grows in one place to a huge mass in a single hand, because it has in another place been lost by many. This is centralisation proper, as distinct from accumulation and concentration.”

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Vol. I, Ch. 25, Section 2, pg. 686.
(Buch I) (1867)

“History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.”

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Karl Marx kniha The Holy Family

The Holy Family, Ch. VI (1845).

“If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them.”

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Letter to Robert Applegarth (3 December 1869) <br class="br">Zdroj: The Abolition of Landed Property http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1869/12/03.htm (3 December 1869)

“Of all the animals kept by the farmer, the labourer, the instrumentum vocale, was, thenceforth, the most oppressed, the worst nourished, the most brutally treated.”

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Karl Marx kniha Das Kapital

Vol. I, Ch. 25, Section 4(e), pg. 742.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)

“Nature builds no machines, no locomotives, railways, electric telegraphs, self-acting mules etc. These are products of human industry; natural material transformed into organs of the human will over nature, or of human participation in nature. They are organs of the human brain, created by the human hand; the power of knowledge, objectified. The development of fixed capital indicates to what degree general social knowledge has become a direct force of production, and to what degree, hence, the conditions of the process of social life itself have come under the control of the general intellect and been transformed in accordance with it.”

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Die Natur baut keine Maschinen, keine Lokomotiven, Eisenbahnen, electric telegraphs, selfacting mules etc. Sie sind Produkte der menschlichen Industrie; natürliches Material, verwandelt in Organe des menschlichen Willens über die Natur oder seiner Betätigung in der Natur. Sie sind von der menschlichen Hand geschaffene Organe des menschlichen Hirns; vergegenständliche Wissenskraft. Die Entwicklung des capital fixe zeigt an, bis zu welchem Grade das allgemeine gesellschaftliche Wissen, knowledge, zur unmittelbaren Produktivkraft geworden ist und daher die Bedingungen des gesellschaftlichen Lebensprozesses selbst unter die Kontrolle des general intellect gekommen, und ihm gemäß umgeschaffen sind.
(1857/58)
Zdroj: Notebook VII, The Chapter on Capital, p. 626.

“Unlimited exploitation of cheap labour-power is the sole foundation of their power to compete.”

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Vol. I, Ch. 15, Section 8, pg. 520.
(Buch I) (1867)

“Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.”

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Vol. I, Ch. 3, Section 2(c), pg. 145.
(Buch I) (1867)

“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”

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