3 Karl Marx Quotes on Exploitation

Karl Marx quotes on exploitation

37. Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to enslave others by means of such appropriations.

45. No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.

54. Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.