2 is a proletariat prime, but 4, 6 and 8 are also composite proletariats. Composites of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains!

Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

Religion is the balm of the people.

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.