"It is precisely the alteration of nature by men, not solely nature as such, which is the most essential and immediate basis of human thought."

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

"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 …"

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

"The capitalist mode of appropriation, the result of the capitalist mode of production, produces capitalist private property. This is the first negation of individual private property, as founded on th…"