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

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.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

Without analysis, no synthesis.

Competition permits the capitalist to deduct from the price of labour power that which the family earns from its own little garden or field; the workers are compelled to accept any piece wages offered to them, because otherwise they would get nothing at all, and they could not live from the products of their small-scale agriculture alone, and because, on the other hand, it is just this agriculture and landownership which chains them to the spot and prevents them from looking around for other employment.

And what is impossible to science?

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.