Capital; Manifesto of the Communist Party
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“The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.” (Page 421)
“All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital, and is allowed to live only insofar as the interest of the ruling class requires it.” (Page 426)
“The social conditions of the old society no longer exist for the proletariat. The proletarian is without property; his relation to his wife and children has no longer anything in common with bourgeois family relations; modern industrial labour, modern subjection to capital, the same in England as in France, in America as in Germany, has stripped him of every trace of national character. Law, morality, religion are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests.” (Page 424)
“Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge. Has not Christianity declaimed against private property, against marriage, against the state? Has it not preached in the place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church? Christian Socialism is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat.” (Page 430)
“In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things.” (Page 434)
- Title: Capital; Manifesto of the Communist Party
- Authors: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
- Edition: Second Edition
- Series: Great Books of the Western World
- Volume: 50
- Publishers: Robert P. Gwinn, Encyclopedia Britannica
- Print Publication Date: 1990
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Capital; Economics; Socialism
- ISBNs: 0852295316, 9780852295311
- Resource ID: LLS:GBWW50
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-02-01T19:12:15Z