Capital, Vol. 1 Quotes

“They don't know it, but they are doing it.”
― Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production

“There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition).”
― Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production

“Moments are the elements of profit”
― Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production

“Education is free. Freedoom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state”
― Karl Marx, Das Kapital

“Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!”
― Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production

“Pengabstrakan kerja dalam bentuk uang mengandaikan dialektika di antara perkerjaan/kerja yang secara sosial dibutuhkan untuk membuat barang dagangan/komoditi/jasa, dengan proses produksi kapitalisme yang justru meniadakan kerja manusia itu sendiri. Sehingga proses produksi kapitalisme dalam kelanjutannya hanya menempatkan manusia sebagai bagian dari proses akumulasi modal.”
― Karl Marx, Das Kapital

“Pekerja tidak selalu mendapatkan apa yang dihasilkan oleh kapitalis, tetapi suah pasi akan turut jatuh ketika kapitalis mrngalami kerugian. Sehingga pekerja tidak mendapatkan apapun ketika kapitalis menjaga harga barang di atas harga alaminya baik itu melalui jasa perdagangan atau produksi rahasia, ataupun melalui monopoli”
― Karl Marx, Das Kapital

“In its rational form [dialectic] is a scandal and abomination to bourgeoisdom and its doctrinaire professors, because it includes in its comprehension and affirmative recognition of the existing state of things, at the same time also, the recognition of the negation of that state, of its inevitable breaking up; because it regards every historically developed social form as in fluid movement, and therefore takes into account its transient nature not less than its momentary existence because it lets nothing impose upon it, and is in its essence critical and revolutionary.”
― Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production

“The very same bourgeois mentality which extols the manufacturing division of labour, the life-long annexation of the worker to a partial operation, and the unconditional subordination of the detail worker to capital, extols them as an organisation of labour which increases productivity - denounces just as loudly every kind of deliberate social control and regulation of the social process of production, denounces it as an invasion of the inviolable property rights, liberty and self-determining genius of the individual capitalist. It is characteristic that the inspired apologists of the factory system can find nothing worse to say of any proposal for the general organisation of social labour, than that it would transform the whole of society into a factory.”
― Karl Marx, Das Kapital

“As a matter of fact, the methods of primitive accumulation are anything but idyllic.”
― Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production