The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.

The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews, and what is more, a wonderful means whereby out of money to make more money.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore violates the conditions necessary to lasting fertility of the soil. By this action it destroys at the same time the health of the town labourer and the intellectual life of the rural labourer.