Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.

In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.

In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be put an end to. In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end.

Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production