Karl Marx
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Commercial Crises of the Nineteenth Century
Political economist whose school Hyndman regards as the superior analyst of commercial crises
To such a pitch of despair have economists been driven in their anxiety to avoid the true solution propounded for them already by a greater thinker than themselves, that Mr.
The ablest summary of the causes of crises yet formulated outside of the school of Marx is really but a recapitulation of the symptoms which precede a crisis, not in any sense an analysis of the causes which bring it about.
Economics of Socialism
German political economist and philosopher, co-founder of scientific socialism, whose theory of value based on social human labour Hyndman champions against Jevons.
Professor Alfred Marshall takes the distinction, without a word of acknowledgment, from Marx, but does not know what to do with it when he has got it.
Yet it might have been thought that, by the year 1879, Jevons would have heard of the celebrated system of Marx, based upon simple, abstract, social human labour, the measure of the value of commodities in exchange;
I now issue the lectures in their present form, in the hope that I shall thus furnish the rapidly-increasing number of students of sociology with a concise and readable statement of the main theories of the scientific school of political economy, founded by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
The Communist Manifesto
Author of the Manifesto, speaking as Communist representative throughout in first person plural.
We Communists have been reproached with the desire of abolishing the right of personally acquiring property as the fruit of a man’s own labour, which property is alleged to be the groundwork of all personal freedom, activity and independence.
This talk about free selling and buying, and all the other “brave words” of our bourgeoisie about freedom in general, have a meaning, if any, only in contrast with restricted selling and buying, with the fettered traders of the Middle Ages, but have no meaning when opposed to the Communistic abolition of buying and selling, of the bourgeois conditions of production, and of the bourgeoisie itself.