...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.

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.

The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.