Classic quotations from Volume 1 of Capital

1. Equal exploitation of labor is the primary human right of capital.

2. As long as the theory convinces people, it can control the masses; and as long as the theory is thorough, it can convince people.

3. When capital comes to the world, it is covered with blood and filth from head to toe.

4. One step of practical action is more important than a dozen programs.

5. There is no smooth road in science. Only those who are not afraid of hard work and climb the steep mountain road can hope to reach the glorious peak.

6. Capitalists are afraid of no profit and too little profit, just like nature is afraid of a vacuum. Once there are appropriate profits, capitalists will become bolder. If there is 10% profit, he will be used everywhere; if there is 20% profit, he will become active; if there is 50% profit, he will take risks; for 100% profit, he will dare to trample all human laws; with With 300% profit, he would dare to commit any crime and even risk being hanged. It encourages unrest and strife if it brings profits, as evidenced by smuggling and the slave trade.

7. As the role of currency circulation strengthens, its status as a value equivalent gradually weakens and declines. Eventually it became a symbol. Slowly and regularly, it finally completed its linkage and association with precious metals such as gold and silver...and finally its wealth storage function gradually disappeared.

8. I welcome any scientific criticism. As for the so-called prejudice of public opinion, which I have never given in to, I still abide by the motto of the great Florentine poet: Go your way and let people talk!

9. My dialectical method is fundamentally In general, it is not only different from Hegel's dialectical method, but also completely opposite to it. According to Hegel, the thinking process, which he calls ideas and even turns them into independent subjects, is the creator of real things, and real things are only the external manifestations of the thinking process. My view is on the contrary. Conceptual things are nothing more than material things that have been moved into people's minds and transformed in their minds.

10. The economic base determines the superstructure.

11. Gold and silver are naturally not currencies, but money is naturally gold and silver.

12. As a capitalist, he is just capital in person. His soul is the soul of capital. Capital has only one life instinct, which is to multiply itself, obtain surplus value, and use its constant part, the means of production, to absorb as much surplus labor as possible. Capital is dead labor. Like a vampire, it has life only when it sucks living labor. The more living labor it sucks, the more vigorous its life will be. The time workers work is the time the capitalist consumes the labor power he purchased.