A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

English law in 1572 decreed that beggars above 14 years of age are to be severely flogged and branded on the left ear unless some one will take them into service for two years; in case of a repetition of the offense, if they are over 18, they are to be executed, unless some one will take them into service for two years; but for the third offence they are to be executed without mercy as felons.

Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.

The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.

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

The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it. Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with there capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated.

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.