The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.
Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.
The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is a sovereign being. This is the illusion, dream, and postulate of Christianity.
In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.