"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce."

"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 proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat…"

"The proletariat must first of all acquire political supremacy, must rise to be the leading class of the nation, must constitute itself the nation."

"The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future."