Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

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

It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

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.