{"author":"Karl Marx","author_id":"Karl+Marx","total_quotes":130,"quotes":[{"text":"The Constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and the red republicans, the heroes of Africa, the thunder from the platform, the sheet lightning of the daily press, the entire literature, the political names and the intellectual reputations, the civil law and penal code, the liberté, égalité, fraternité and the second of May 1852—all have vanished like a phantasmagoria before the spell of a man whom even his enemies do not make out to be a magician. Universal suffrage seems to have survived only for a moment, in order that with its own hand it may make its last will and testament before the eyes of all the world and declare in the name of the people itself: Everything that exists has this much worth, that it will perish.","author":"Karl Marx","tags":["itarian","itarianism","bourgeois","brumaire","cipolla","constitution","coup-d-etat","dictator","dictatorship","dynasty","fascism","france","french-republic","louis-bonaparte","magician","mario-and-the-magician","monarchy","mountebank","napoleon","press","republicans","revolution","socialism","spell","suffrage","third-republic"],"id":8439,"author_id":"Karl+Marx"},{"text":"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.","author":"Karl Marx","tags":["together","wealth","social "],"id":10849,"author_id":"Karl+Marx"},{"text":"Revolutions are the locomotives of history.","author":"Karl Marx","tags":["revolutions "],"id":14162,"author_id":"Karl+Marx"},{"text":"Capital is dead labor that  vampirelike  lives only by sucking living labor  and lives the more  the more labor it suck.","author":"Karl Marx","tags":["capital","labor"],"id":16736,"author_id":"Karl+Marx"},{"text":"In the social production which men carry on they enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will; these relations of production correspond to a definite stage of development of their material powers of production. The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society—the real foundation, on which rise legal and political superstructures and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production in material life determines the general character of the social, political and spiritual processes of life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but, on the contrary, their social existence determines their consciousness.","author":"Karl Marx","tags":["consiousness","dialectic","history-of-mankind","materialism"],"id":17525,"author_id":"Karl+Marx"},{"text":"But capital not only lives upon labour. Like a master, at once distinguished and barbarous, it drags with it into its grave the corpses of its slaves, whole hecatombs of workers, who perish in the crises.","author":"Karl Marx","tags":["capitalism","labor","workers"],"id":20576,"author_id":"Karl+Marx"},{"text":"Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are artificial institutions, those of the bourgeoisie are natural institutions. In this, they resemble the theologians, who likewise establish two kinds of religion. Every religion which is not theirs is an invention of men, while their own is an emanation from God. When the economists say the present-day relations--the relations of bourgeois production--are natural, they imply that these are the relations in which wealth is created and productive forces developed in conformity with the laws of nature. These relations therefore are themselves natural laws independent of the influence of time. They are eternal laws which must always govern society. Thus, there has been history, but there is no longer any. There has been history, since there were institutions of feudalism, and in these institutions of feudalism we find quite different relations of production from those of bourgeois society, which the economists try to pass off as natural and, as such, eternal.","author":"Karl Marx","tags":["bourgeois","economics","history","institutions","market","perspective","production","religion"],"id":26772,"author_id":"Karl+Marx"},{"text":"Religion is the opium of the people.","author":"Karl Marx","tags":["religion"],"id":35666,"author_id":"Karl+Marx"},{"text":"He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body from chains because he enchained the heart.","author":"Karl Marx","tags":["atheism","freedom","religion-and-philoshophy"],"id":38472,"author_id":"Karl+Marx"},{"text":"No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind.","author":"Karl Marx","tags":["letters","marx","nationalism","politics","revolution","ruge","shame","socialism"],"id":40023,"author_id":"Karl+Marx"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":130,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}