Moments are the elements of profit

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and he must do so in all social formations and under all possible modes of production.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle.

The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.