In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it

...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts itself over the general. Every demand for the most simple bourgeois financial reform, for the most ordinary liberalism, for the most commonplace republicanism, for the flattest democracy is forthwith punished as an assault upon society and is branded as Socialism.

The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews, and what is more, a wonderful means whereby out of money to make more money.

The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.