History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker.

The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

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

Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.