Karl Marx: His Life and Work |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
adopted appeared association attack Bakunin became become Berlin called Capital capitalist cause charge Commune Communist complete congress Council course criticism economic Engels English existence fact father followers force France French friends German give hand held hope idea importance interest International Italy Karl knew labour Lassalle later less letter living London Manifesto March Marx Marx and Engels Marx's Marxism matter means meeting mind movement nature necessary never once organization Paris party period philosophy political position possible practical present production programme proletariat Prussian published question radical reason received regarded result revolutionary seems social Socialist society soon struggle theory thought tion took trades union United volume whole workers write written wrote young
Popular passages
Page 108 - The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.
Page 111 - All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned...
Page 124 - ... is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property. But modern bourgeois private property is the final and most complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products that is based on class antagonisms, on the exploitation of the many by the few. In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
Page 113 - The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together.
Page 118 - The proletariat will use its political supremacy, to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the State, ie, of the proletariat organized as the ruling class; and to increase the total of productive forces as rapidly as possible.
Page 109 - In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank.
Page 120 - Just as, therefore, at an earlier period, a section of the nobility went over to the bourgeoisie, so now a portion of the bourgeoisie goes over to the proletariat, and in particular, a portion of the bourgeois ideologists, who have raised themselves to the level of comprehending theoretically the historical movement as a whole.
Page 121 - dangerous class," the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of old society, may, here and there, be swept into the movement by a proletarian revolution; its conditions of life, however, prepare it far more for the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue.
Page 113 - Just as it has made the country dependent on the towns, so it has made barbarian and semi-barbarian countries dependent on the civilized ones, nations of peasants on nations of bourgeois, the East on the West.
Page 115 - ... means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed ; and why ? Because there is too much civilization, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce. The productive forces at the disposal of society no longer tend to further the development of the...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Karl Marx: His Life and Work |
| Author | John Spargo |
| Publisher | B. W. Huebsch, 1912 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 359 pages |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |