The way people get their living determines their social outlook.
A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.
Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence.
I am nothing but I must be everything.
One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it
May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'.
Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.
The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party
The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.
You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a change in society but also to change yourselves, and prepare yourselves for the exercise of political power.
Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as capital ... Thus all the physical and intellectual senses have been replaced by ... the sense of having.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
The wealthy man is the man whois much, not the one who has much
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