Karl Marx Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

• Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

  Karl Marx

  Ignorance, Opposites, Agony

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.709, Cosimo, Inc.

• There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

  Karl Marx

  Rotten, Misery, Wealth

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1980). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Marx and Engels Collected Works 1858-60”, Intl Pub

• History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes.

  Karl Marx

  Real, Mean, Fighting

• Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Wealth, Commodity

  Karl Marx (2012). “Selected Essays”, p.58, The Floating Press

• Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

  Karl Marx

  Technology, Together, Soil

  Karl Marx (1992). “Marx's Capital”, Lawrence & Wishart Limited

• 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

• 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.

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