Time is the room of human development.
Karl Marx · Value, Price and Profit (1865)
Karl Marx: German philosopher and economist of Capital and the Communist Manifesto, 1818 to 1883.
Karl Marx · Value, Price and Profit (1865)
Karl Marx · Letter to Joseph Weydemeyer (February 1, 1859)
Karl Marx
Karl Marx · The source reads: “Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.” · The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (1852), ch. 1
Karl Marx · The source reads: “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great worldhistoric facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” · The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (1852)
Karl Marx · With Friedrich Engels.
Karl Marx · The Communist Manifesto (1848), sec. 2, with Friedrich Engels
Karl Marx · With Friedrich Engels.
Karl Marx · With Friedrich Engels.
Karl Marx · The source reads: “A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police spies.” · The Communist Manifesto (1848), opening line, with Friedrich Engels
Attributed to Karl Marx · Reported by Engels.
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