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

Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.

Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother.

It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.

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

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.