All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy

I am nothing but I must be everything.

The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.

...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.