It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived.

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.

As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.