The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

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.

Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.

There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.

[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.

The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralization of state power will be useful for the centralization of the German working class. German predominance would also transfer the center of gravity of the workers' movement in Western Europe from France to Germany, and one has only to compare the movement in the two countries from 1866 until now to see that the German working class is superior to the French both theoretically and organizationally.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.