Карл Маркс: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 4)

Карл Маркс было немецкий философ, социолог, экономист, писатель, политический журналист, общественный деятель. Цитаты на английском языке.
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“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 книга 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“These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise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 книга 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.
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“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)
Источник: 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)
Источник: 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).
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“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)
Источник: 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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Источник: 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)
Источник: 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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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)
Источник: Introduction, p. 12.