"The development of modern industry has cut from under its feet the very ground on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its …"

"Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat."

"The first great division of labour, that between town and country, condemned the rural population to thousands of years of mental stupor, and the urban population to the domination of each individual …"

"The emancipation of the working class must be the act of the working class itself."

"The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, in…"