The question is, can mankind fulfil its destiny without a fundamental revolution in the social state of Asia? K. Marx

The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalised the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. K. Marx

The ancients provide a narrow satisfaction, whereas the modern world leaves us unsatisfied, or, where it appears to be satisfied with itself, is vulgar and mean. K. Marx

4. My Work is not my Life, 90 X 70 cm
Collection of Alexandr Svetlakov

My work is not my life. K. Marx

Wealth is disposable time, and nothing more. K. Marx

The profound hypocrisy and inherent barbarism of bourgeois civilization lies unveiled before our eyes, turning from its home, where it assumes respectable forms, to the colonies, where it goes naked. K. Marx

...Then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain. K. Marx

The remnant of the aborigines flung on the sea-shore tried to live by catching fish. They became amphibious and lived, as an English author says, half on land and half on water, and withal only half on both. K. Marx