Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother.

Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.

The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got

Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.

A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.