Occupation: Author Birth: November 28, 1820 Death: August 5, 1895
Don't forget any affront done to you and to all our people, the time of revenge will come and must be put to good use..
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 materi….
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 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….
Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks..
Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity..
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..
The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization of th….
...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….
All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time..
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization..
The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all..
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence..
Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of sy….
What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that….
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..