Karl Marx Quotes
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1. Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1906, p. 81.
Marx believed that the system of capitalism if it succeeded would be forced to globalize. To him, globalization was an inevitable consequence of capitalism itself and purely national industries would be destroyed.
This quotation is important because so many modern conservatives regard Keynes as a Marxist economist. Those who do, generally have not read neither the one or the other—possibly neither.
Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. Born in Trier, Germany, Marx studied law and philosophy at university. He married Jenny von Westphalen in 1843. Due to his political publications, Marx became stateless and lived in exile with his wife and children in London for decades, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and publish his writings, researching in the reading room of the British Museum. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto and the three-volume Das Kapital (1867–1883). Marx's political and philosophical thought had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic and political history. His name has been used as an adjective, a noun, and a school of social theory.
