“All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.”

Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late ‘seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected? The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.

Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source — next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth.

Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment.

It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.

The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.

The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.

Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..’If you don’t like to be frizzled in my frying- pan, you can take a walk into the fire.

By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.

What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.

Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.

A revolution is a class struggle.

Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

I’d taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn’t a musical theater person at all.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

Morgan Freeman is so class. He’s so cool. He’s so scary.

Education doesn’t just take place in stuffy classrooms and university buildings, it can happen everywhere, every day to every person.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.