Karl Marx Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

  Karl Marx

  Ghouls, Division Of Labor, Vampire

• All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

  Karl Marx

  Real, Government, Political

  Attributed in a letter from Engels to C. Schmidt, 5 August 1890

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

  Karl Marx

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Political

• The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophical, Historical, Politics

• The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

  Karl Marx

  Animal, Political, Politics

  Karl Marx (1973). “Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy”, Vintage Books USA

• A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

  Karl Marx

  Wisdom, Income, Politics

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.84, BookCaps Study Guides

• As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

  Karl Marx

  Life, Real, Party

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”

• The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

  Karl Marx

  Long, Society, Church

  "By Appointment With the Future Queen" by Farzana Versey, www.counterpunch.org. April 28, 2011.

• In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

  Karl Marx

  Passion, Mean, Political

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.455, Oxford University Press, USA

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