Karl Marx Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• 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.

  Karl Marx

  Money, Eggs, Golden

  "Capital, Volume I". Book by Karl Marx, Vol. I, Ch. 4, pp. 171 - 172, 1867.

• The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

  Karl Marx

  Time, Science, Scientist

  "Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844". Book by Karl Marx, "Relative and Absolute Surplus Value", 1932.

• Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Utility

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.462, Oxford University Press, USA

• Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena

  Karl Marx

  Essence, Invisible, Form

  Karl Marx (1977). “Capital: a critique of political economy”, Vintage

• Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of money: 1) private property for private property; 2) society for private property; 3) private property for society. But Christ is alienated God and alienated man. God has value only insofar as he represents Christ, and man has value only insofar as he represents Christ. It is the same with money.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Ideas, Christ

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Collected works”

• Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle.

  Karl Marx

  Horse, Doctors, Law

  Karl Marx (1975). “Early writings”, Vintage

• I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.

  Karl Marx

  Dog, Book, Economics

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1956). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Selected Correspondence, [1843-1895].”

• So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.

  Karl Marx

  Pearls, Diamond, Chemist

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.75, Cambridge University Press

• It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.

  Karl Marx

  Religious, Water, Political

  Karl Marx (2018). “The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings: & Selected Writings”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

• A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production.

  Karl Marx

  Greatness, Relative Value, Substance

  Karl Marx (1913). “Value, Price and Profit”

• The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity .

  Karl Marx

  Doe, Economic, Concepts

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, Notebook VII, The Chapter on Capital, p. 696, 1857-1858.

• Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother.

  Karl Marx

  Mother, Father, Use

  Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.227, Hackett Publishing

• 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.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Increase, Labour

  Karl Marx (2005). “Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy”, Penguin UK

• The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.

  Karl Marx

  Ends, Motive, Aim

  Karl Marx (2012). “Das Kapital: A Critique of Political Economy”, p.178, Regnery Publishing

• We cannot tell by looking at the diamond that it is a commodity. When it serves as a use-value, asthetic or mechanical, on the breast of a harlot, or in the hand of a glasscutter, it is a diamond and not a commodity.

  Karl Marx

  Hands, Use, Commodity

• Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.

  Karl Marx

  Substance, Wealth, Form

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, Notebook II, The Chapter on Money, p. 141, 1857-1858.

• Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.

  Karl Marx

  Cash, Social Consciousness, Ideals

  Karl Marx (2012). “The Essential Marx”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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

  Karl Marx

  Realizing, Circulation, Labour

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, Notebook V, The Chapter on Capital, p. 463, 1857-1858.

• The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed.

  Karl Marx

  Commodity, Labor, Employed

  Karl Marx (1913). “Value, Price and Profit”

• Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.

  Karl Marx

  Doe, Labels, Stalking

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.85, Cosimo, Inc.

• Price, taken by itself, is nothing but the monetary expression of value.

  Karl Marx

  Taken, Expression, Monetary

  Karl Marx, Hugh Griffith, F. Engels (2009). “Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels”, p.102, Collector's Library

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