Democracy is the road to socialism.

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

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.