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

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

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere.

The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

Fallen wood... has a little organic connection with the growing tree as the cast-off skin has with the snake.

Everyone of our relationships with nature and man must be a definite expression of our real, individual life.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties

The french revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order. The revolutionary movement which began in 1789 gave rise to the communist idea which babeu's friend buonarroti re-introduced in france after the revolution of 1830. This idea, consistently developed, is the idea of the new world order.

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it