"......human beings have individual and collective material needs, and it is need, not individual contemplation or thought that provides human beings with their primary form of interaction with the world.......must labour together......they evolve evermore complex forms of production and social inter"
"The sensuous world . . . is not a given thing direct from all eternity, remaining ever the same, but the product of industry and the state of society . . . the result of the activity of a whole succession of generations, each standing on the shoulders of early writings the preceding one . . . (the r"
"1)Gold ‘will make black, white; foul, fair; wrong, right; base, noble; old, young; coward, valiant’....... 2)Money is the "universal whore"....... 3)Money turns all human natural qualities into their opposite."
"For the young Marx capitalism is a regime of alienation through and through; spreading from religion, to the state, labour, money, human relations, and even language. Liberal political emancipation, in the end, makes things even worse in some respects, even though it does represent progress in many "
"[The origin of the division of the classes] is supposed to be explained when it is told as an anecdote about the past. In times long gone by there were two sorts of people; one, the diligent, intelligent, and above all, frugal elite; the other lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in rio"