"The English working class is, after all, only a branch of the German working class."

"The demand for the abolition of private property is nothing but the expression of the revolutionary spirit of the proletariat."

"Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another."

"What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable."

"The state is not 'abolished', it withers away."