What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that….

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence..

Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks..

The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims a….

We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends -- the n….

All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various….

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

Without analysis, no synthesis..

No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations..

Freedom is the recognition of necessity..

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal..

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy..

Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he discovered the simple ….

The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come down with a wrat….

By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the cl….

The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization of th….

Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity..

...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the future social revolution….

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..

The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all..