The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come down with a wrath of which the rage of 1795 gives no true idea. The war of the poor against the rich will be the bloodiest ever waged.

In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.

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

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

If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.

We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends -- the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it.