Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.

The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.

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

We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done by social development, in which education must play a part.

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on a mass scale is necessary, an alteration which can only take place in a practical movement, a revolution; this revolution is necessary, therefore, not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew.

...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.