How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected? The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.

Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.

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.

Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth. But it is even infinitely more than this. It is the prime basic condition for all human existence, and this to such an extent that, in a sense, we have to say that labour created man himself.