The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.

Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.

Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.