...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.

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

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

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

...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.

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

The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.