...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the future social revolution, the working class must first take possession of the organised political power of the state and by its aid crush the resistance of the capitalist class and organise society anew.

It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground.

By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium — by that same right Germany takes over Schleswig; it is the right of civilisation as against barbarism, of progress as against stability.

The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.

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

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

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.