"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 …"

"What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable."

"The abolition of existing property relations is not at all a distinctive feature of communism."

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

"We are not dealing with a simple economic doctrine but with a new world outlook."