The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it.

Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena

Democracy is the road to socialism.

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

So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.

Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.