Karl Marx Quotes

But it is pretty to see what money will do.

In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.

Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty?

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

But I can tell you that the issue, on one side, boils down to money - a lot of money. And it boils down to people and their connections with this money, and that's the portion that, even with this book, has not been mentioned to this day.

The economy controls the politicians far more than the politicians control the economy.

Money is power.

There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money – and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.

The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth.

The American system is the most ingenious system of control in world history. With a country so rich in natural resources, talent, and labor power, the system can afford to distribute just enough wealth to just enough people to limit discontent to a troublesome minority.

Political struggles are due, in the last analysis, to class struggles; these struggles increase in scope and seriousness as capital becomes concentrated …

Whosoever has money has power. It's not about a label. If you have money tomorrow, you will be powerful.

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.

The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market.

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

There's nothing as real as money.

Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!

Money has always been a particular problem for revolutionaries and anti-capitalists. What will money look like 'after the revolution'? How will it function? Will it exist at all? It's hard to answer the question if you don't know what money actually is. Proposing to eliminate it entirely seems utopian and naive.

This dilettante notion that the global economy is evil because big corporate leaders make too much money... they do make too much money, but the only way we've figured out how to generate wealth in this world is through the market economy.

So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.

When you print money, the money does not flow evenly into the economic system. It stays essentially in the financial service industry and among people that have access to these funds, mostly well-to-do people. It does not go to the worker.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.