Marx Quotes

Question 1

Species-Being

Answer 1

Communism is “the complete return of man to himself as a social being” - Collected Works

Question 2

Freedom

Answer 2

“We need human emancipation and not just political emancipation” - On the Jewish Question

Question 3

Interdependence

Answer 3

“It is not the consciousness of men that determines their social being but, on the contrary, their social being which determines their consciousness” - A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

Question 4

Liberalism

Answer 4

“The liberal state is an organising committee for the bourgeoisie” - The Communist Manifesto

Question 5

Historical determinism

Answer 5

“Communism is not a state of affairs to be established, an ideal to which reality will have to adjust … the conditions of [communism] result from the premises now in existence” - The German Ideology

Question 6

History

Answer 6

“History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends” - The Holy Family

Question 7

Free Trade, shrinking bourgeosie

Answer 7

It is “the uniting of all these contradictions in a single group, where they will stand face-to-face, which will itself eventuate the emancipation of the proletariat” - Collected Works

Question 8

End of History

Answer 8

“The bourgeois relations of production are the last antagonistic form of the social process of production” - A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

Question 9

Commodity Fetishism

Answer 9

“All the physical and intellectual senses have been replaced with … the sense of having” - Collected Works

Question 10

Alienation (Entfremdung)

Answer 10

“The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work and in his labour feels outside himself” - The Paris Manuscripts

Question 11

Historical Materialism

Answer 11

“The bourgeoisie … produces, above all, its own gravediggers” - The Communist Manifesto

Question 12

Instrumentalised Relationships

Answer 12

The worker “becomes an appendage to the machine” - The Communist Manifesto

Question 13

Property Rights

Answer 13

“You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property, but in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population” - The Communist Manifesto

Question 14

Traditional idea of history

Answer 14

“Confines itself to high-sounding dramas of princes and princesses” instead of civil society - The German Ideology

Question 15

Religion

Answer 15

“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature”

Question 16

Freedom in communist society

Answer 16

Free “to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.”