"Society can no longer exist as a community of free and equal individuals, but only as a mass of isolated, mutually hostile atoms, each striving to exploit the others."

"The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a consid…"

"The abolition of private property is the necessary consequence of the development of industry."

"The old society, with its classes and class antagonisms, is to be replaced by an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

"Only in the community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible."