A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.