I am humorous, but the law bids me write seriously. I am audacious, but the law commands that my style be modest.
Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital
I am humorous, but the law bids me write seriously. I am audacious, but the law commands that my style be modest.
Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital
From 'Comments on the Latest Prussian Censorship Instruction', a critique of censorship.
1842
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"The worker is the owner of his labour power, but he cannot sell it without selling himself."
Humorous"A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties."
Controversial"The production of commodities is a social process, and the relations between producers are not directly social, but appear as relations between things."
Controversial"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."
Controversial"Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!"
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