“Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation.”

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are ‘peaceful’.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Capital is dead labour, which, vampire like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Capital is dead labour, which, vampire like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be in itself a power.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Communism begins where atheism begins.

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.