So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.

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

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

Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker.

Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of money: 1) private property for private property; 2) society for private property; 3) private property for society. But Christ is alienated God and alienated man. God has value only insofar as he represents Christ, and man has value only insofar as he represents Christ. It is the same with money.

Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.