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Karl Marx From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation, search The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German political philosoph

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Karl Marx, 1818-1883 The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and range. The worker becomes an ever cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates. With the increasing value of the world of things proceeds in direct proportion to th...