Karl Marx not only fought against capital but also against various adversities of modern life. He takes aim at loudmouths, denounces the exploitation of nature, and reflects on the prospects for a higher form of family and the relationship between the sexes. In his writings, he grapples with the misery of a world of scarcity amidst abundance, a world filled with tax collectors and indebted states, polluted rivers and soils, exhausted and captive animals and wage laborers, self-congratulatory political economists and socialists. This volume gathers witty and critical comments from Marx's work on labor, nature, and family, as well as on Germany, crisis, state, and capital.