“The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, i.e., the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being. Everything which the political economist takes from you in life and in humanity, he replaces for you in money and in wealth.” - Marx - Human Requirements 1844 - Marx - Human Requirements 1844 (Source: marxists.org, via dailymarx)

“Let us not flatter ourselves on account of our human victories over nature. For each such victory nature takes its revenge on us. Each victory, it is true, in the first place brings about the results we expected, but in the second and third places it has quite different, unforeseen effects which only too often cancel the first.” - Engels - The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man, 1876 - Engels - The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man, 1876 (Source: marxists.org)

“Capitalist rule cannot allow itself the pleasure of creating epidemic diseases among the working class with impunity; the consequences fall back on it and the angel of death rages in its ranks as ruthlessly as in the ranks of the workers.” - Engels - The Housing Question 1872 - Engels - The Housing Question 1872 (Source: marxists.org)

“the emancipation of the productive class is that of all human beings without distinction of sex or race;” - Marx - Programme of the Workers’ Party, 1880 - Marx - Programme of the Workers’ Party, 1880 (Source: marxists.org)

“a distinct political party … must be pursued by all the means the proletariat has at its disposal, including universal suffrage which will thus be transformed from the instrument of deception that it has been until now into an instrument of emancipation” - Marx - Program of the Workers’ Party 1880 (Source: marxists.org)

“The measure of wealth is then not any longer, in any way, labour time, but rather disposable time.” - Marx - Grundrisse 1857 - Marx - Grundrisse 1857 (Source: marxists.org)

“Under private property… every new product represents a new potentiality of mutual swindling and mutual plundering. Man becomes ever poorer as man, his need for money becomes ever greater if he wants to master this hostile power… The need for money is therefore the true need produced by the economic system.” - Marx - Economic Manuscripts 1844 - Marx - Economic Manuscripts 1844 (Source: marxists.org)

“But capital produces no value. Labour is, besides the earth, the only source of wealth; capital itself is nothing but the stored-up produce of labour.” - Engels - A Fair Day’s Wage 1881 - Engels - A Fair Day’s Wage 1881 (Source: marxists.org)

“The social power which arises through the co-operation of different individuals appears to these individuals not as their own united power but as an alien force existing outside them which they cannot control,.. How otherwise could property have had a history at all” - Marx - The German Ideology 1845 - Marx - The German Ideology 1845 (Source: marxists.org)

“The Chartists at the head of the English Government – only from this moment would the social revolution emerge from the realm of Utopia and enter the sphere of reality…” - Marx - 1848 - Marx - 1848 (Source: marxists.org)

“In history up to the present it is certainly an empirical fact that separate individuals have become more and more enslaved under a power alien to them, a power which has become more and more enormous and, in the last instance, turns out to be the world market.” - Marx - The German Ideology 1845 - Marx - The German Ideology 1845 (Source: marxists.org)

“One of the prerequisites of wage labor, and one of the historic conditions for capital, is free labor and the exchange of free labor against money,.. This means above all that the workers must be separated from the land.” - Marx - Pre-capitalist Economic Formations 1857 - Marx - Pre-capitalist Economic Formations 1857 (Source: marxists.org)

“And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the intervention direct or indirect, of society, by means of schools, etc.? The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.” - Marx & Engels - Communist Manifesto 1848 - Marx & Engels - Communist Manifesto 1848 (Source: marxists.org)

“Economy of time, to this all economy ultimately reduces itself.” - Marx - Grundrisse 1857 - Marx - Grundrisse 1857 (Source: marxists.org)