In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.

Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.

Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other.

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence.