There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena

I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.

Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels.

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.

So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.