Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.

Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.

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.

What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.

The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.

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