“Thus, as far as he is a scientific man, as far as he knows anything, he is a materialist; outside his science, in spheres about which he knows nothing, he translates his ignorance into Greek and calls it agnosticism.”
― Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
― Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
“The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.”
― The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
― The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
“Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!”
― White Nights
― White Nights
“To say that "the worker has an interest in the rapid growth of capital", means only this: that the more speedily the worker augments the wealth of the capitalist, the larger will be the crumbs which fall to him, the greater will be the number of workers than can be called into existence, the more can the mass of slaves dependent upon capital be increased.”
― Wage-Labour and Capital & Value, Price and Profit
― Wage-Labour and Capital & Value, Price and Profit
“Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty.”
― The Communist Manifesto
― The Communist Manifesto
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