Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.

If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. About Russia

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

I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.