Surplus Value Quotes

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

Capital is dead labor, that vampire like, only lives by sucking living labor.

Workers cannot buy with their salaries what they have produced and at the same time copiously nourish the swarm of idlers who live upon their work.

Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our own pockets. Marx and Lenin have taught us that anything is ethical, so long as it is in the interest of the proletarian class and its world revolution.

The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer.

I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is any hope of progress in economics at all, it must be in using academic methods to solve the problems posed by Marx.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth — the soil and the laborer.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.

The theory of Socialism grew out of the philosophic, historical and economic theories that were elaborated by the educated representatives of the propertied classes, the intellectuals. The founders of modern scientific Socialism, Marx and Engels, belonged to the bourgeois intelligentsia.

The object of the law of value is to elucidate the actual exchange relations of commodities.

There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.

As far as social-economic theory is concerned, I am still a Marxist

Since, however, the reduced surplus value is to be distributed among them in like manner, the modification of their respective parts in the production of surplus value must find expression in a modification of the prices.

Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.

The labourer has neither raw materials nor tools. These are provided for him by the capitalist. For making this provision the capitalist of course expects a reward

Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.

Marxism does not make sense, and I am the first one to say this

George Brown ... represents the theory of Marxism in the House of Commons - but that of Groucho, not Karl.