In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.
When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.
The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism... The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.
Napoleon swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... He was Caesar himself.
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice.
Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.
Usury lives in the pores of production, as it were, just as the gods of Epicurus lived in the space between the worlds.
Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy.
This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial features.
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various way; the point, however, is to change it.
Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.
No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind.
Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps.
Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother.
Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.
Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it.
It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.
But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature, its own negation. It is the negation of negation.
Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.
Representative government is deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to misrepresent the people in Parliament,.
The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.
The bourgeoisie, in truth, is bound to fear the stupidity of the masses so long as they remain conservative, and the insight of the masses as soon as they become revolutionary.
The unity of the bourgeoisie can be shaken only by the unity of the proletariat.
2 is a proletariat prime, but 4, 6 and 8 are also composite proletariats. Composites of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains!
In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interest of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality.
There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.
The first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.
In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.
The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.
History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.
In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.
The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.
There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.
Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.
Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones.
The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy .
So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
Man makes religion, religion does not make man.
Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
Workingmen of all countries unite!
The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.
The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.
The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got.
As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital .
The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. About Russia.
The unity is brought about by force .
All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.
Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.
So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.
When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off.
The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races.