Marx-Jenny

Quote: 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. [ Marx-Jenny]

Quote: The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. [ Marx-Jenny]

Quote: The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. [ Marx-Jenny]

Quote: A specter is haunting Europe -- the specter of communism. [ Marx-Jenny]

Quote: The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. [ Marx-Jenny]

Quote: The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. [ Marx-Jenny]

Quote: Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. [ Marx-Jenny]

Quote: In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. [ Marx-Jenny]

Quote: From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again. [ Marx-Jenny]

Quote: On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects. [ Marx-Jenny]

Quote: Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. [ Marx-Jenny]

Quote: Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents. [ Marx-Jenny]

Quote: Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed. [ Marx-Jenny]

Quote: Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases. [ Marx-Jenny]

Quote: It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves. [ Marx-Jenny]

Quote: I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles. [ Marx-Jenny]

Quote: All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth. [ Marx-Jenny]

Quote: 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. [ Marx-Jenny]

Quote: 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. [ Marx-Jenny]

Quote: Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love. [ Marx-Jenny]

Quote: The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. [About Russia] [ Marx-Jenny]

Quote: While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. [ Marx-Jenny]

Quote: 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. [ Marx-Jenny]

Quote: Constant revolutionizing of production distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind. [ Marx-Jenny]

Quote: Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. [ Marx-Jenny]

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