Capitalism Quotes

When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalised the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production.

Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.

When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.

The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.

The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self - earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer.

In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.

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

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

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.

Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.

May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'.

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it.

There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.