"Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it – when it exists for us as capital, or when it is directly possessed, eaten, drunk, worn, inhabited, etc.…"

"The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property."

"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 of democracy."

"The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life, and the greater is the saving of your alienated being."

"The product of labour is alienated from the worker; it becomes an alien object, a power independent of the producer."