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

There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.

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

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. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.

History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes.

Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena

When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.