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.

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.

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.

Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he discovered the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of idealogy [sic], that mankind must first of all eat and drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, religion, art etc.

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

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.