The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.
Karl MarxIt's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way.
Karl MarxIs it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it.
Karl MarxCapitalist 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 labourer.
Karl Marx