Karl Marx Quotes About Communism

Quotes about: Communism

• A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.

  Karl Marx

  Income, Development, Progressive

• Communism begins where atheism begins.

  Karl Marx

  Atheism, Communism

  Erich Fromm, Karl Marx (2013). “Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'”, p.105, Bloomsbury Publishing

• The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Political

• From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

  Karl Marx

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Political

  Critique of the Gotha Program pt. 1 (1875).

• Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks which will have to be nationalized and State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.

  Karl Marx

  Technology, Class, House

• In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party

  Karl Marx

  Party, Liberty, May

  Karl Marx (2015). “Manifesto of the Communist Party”, p.18, Booklassic

• Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to enslave others by means of such appropriations.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Men, Fruit

• There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.

  Karl Marx

  Past, Government, Historical

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.68, Haymarket Books

• 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.

  Karl Marx

  Real, Movement, Affair

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.182, Cambridge University Press

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

  Karl Marx

  Fall, Victory, Bourgeoisie

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.837, Cosimo, Inc.

• You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.

  Karl Marx

  Hands, Majority, Population

  Karl Marx (1950). “Communist Manifesto: The revolutionary text that changed the course of history”, p.1839, Harriman House Limited

• A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophical, Europe, Haunting

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1908). “Manifesto of the Communist Party”

• All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

  Karl Marx

  Communism, Marxist, Knows

• In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

  Karl Marx

  Division Of Labor, Horizon, Phases

  Critique of the Gotha Program pt. 1 (1875).

• The way people get their living determines their social outlook.

  Karl Marx

  People, Way, Communism

• Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

  Karl Marx

  Communication, Communist Manifesto, Communism

  Karl Marx (2012). “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”, p.102, Courier Corporation

• The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.

  Karl Marx

  Winning, World, Uniting

  "The Communist Manifesto". Book by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, 1848.

• Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the conflict between existence and essence, objectification and self-affirmation, freedom and necessity, individual and species. It is the riddle of history solved and knows itself as the solution.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Self, Essence

  Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.71, Hackett Publishing

• A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the Party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

  Karl Marx

  Party, Europe, Police

  Karl Marx (2018). “The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings: & Selected Writings”, p.9, Pan Macmillan

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