The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.

Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up with the crude English method of development, of course. Despite all deficiencies not only is the death-blow dealt here for the first time to 'teleology' in the natural sciences, but their rational meaning is empirically explained.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Democracy is the road to socialism.