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

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

Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

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.

Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels.

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.