The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer.

All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.

Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations.

The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.

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