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 rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

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.

Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

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

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.