And what is impossible to science?

Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.

By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.