#pi

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

— Karl Marx

#dead #labor #lives #living #more

Religion is the opium of the masses. ↗

— Karl Marx

#opium #religion

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. ↗

— Karl Marx

#combining #develops #into #labourer #only

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. ↗

— Karl Marx

#first #happiness #people #religion #requisite

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. ↗

— Karl Marx

#creature #heart #heartless #opium #oppressed

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. ↗

— Karl Marx

#acquired #add #being #brings #capital

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. ↗

— Karl Marx

#compulsion #health #laborer #length #life

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. ↗

— Karl Marx

#bourgeoisie #great #hills #insipid #intellects

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. ↗

— Karl Marx

#generalization #lack #material #revolution #revolutionary

I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs. ↗

— Richard Marx

#guy #i #last #love #love songs