Karl Marx Quotes About Language

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  • Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.

    "The German Ideology". Book by Karl Marx, Vol. III, 30, 1845-1846.
  • But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense, the more dogmatically they are asserted and the more deceitful, moralizing and spiritual becomes the language of established society.

  • As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

    Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”
  • Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.

    Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.176, Cambridge University Press
  • Ideas do not exist separately from language.

    Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.53, Cambridge University Press
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Karl Marx

  • Born: May 5, 1818
  • Died: March 14, 1883
  • Occupation: Philosopher