Karl Marx

"Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without willing it or knowing it. The real point is not that each individual's pursuit of his private interest promotes the totality of private interests, the general interest. One could just as well deduce from this abstract phrase that each individual reciprocally blocks the assertion of the others' interests, so that, instead of a general affirmation, this war of all against all produces a general negation."

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Source: Grundrisse. Book by Karl Marx, Notebook I, The Chapter on Money, p. 76, 1857-1858.

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Karl Marx

Karl Marx

Philosopher, Economist

Karl Marx was a revolutionary thinker whose ideas on class struggle and capitalism, articulated in works like 'The Communist Manifesto', reshaped political theory.

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