In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party

The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.

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

I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.

All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.... The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.