User:Frederick

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Open book 01.png "The need for money is therefore the true need produced by the [capitalist] economic system, and it is the only need which the latter produces. The quantity of money becomes to an ever greater degree its sole effective quality. Just as it reduces everything to its abstract form, so it reduces itself in the course of its own movement to quantitative being. Excess and intemperance come to be its true norm."

- Karl Marx, Human Requirements and the Division of Labor, 1844

Open book 01.png "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. [...] Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weights like a nightmare on the brains of the living."

- Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, 1852

Open book 01.png "Capital [...] allows its actual movement to be determined as much and as little by the sight of the coming degradation and final depopulation of the human race, as by the probable fall of the earth into the sun. In every stock-jobbing swindle everyone knows that some time or other the crash must come, but everyone hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbour, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in secure hands. Après moi, la déluge! is the watchword of every capitalist and of every capitalist nation."

- Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter 10, Section 5, 1867