In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interest of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.

An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

Change the economic base and you will change human beings.