When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.

The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Labor, being itself a commodity, is measured as such by the labor time needed to produce the labor-commodity. And what is needed to produce this labor-commodity? Just enough labor time to produce the objects indispensable to the constant maintenance of labor, that is, to keep the worker alive and in a condition to propagate his race. The natural price of labor is no other than the wage minimum.