It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence.

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.

Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother.

Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.