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

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Moments are the elements of profit

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

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

By the aristocracy of finance must here be understood not merely the great loan promoters and speculators in public funds, in regard to whom it is immediately obvious that their interests coincide with the interests of the state power. All modern finance, the whole of the banking business, is interwoven in the closest fashion with public credit.

The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.