"It is not enough to abolish the existing relations of property, but rather to revolutionize them, to abolish the old relations of production in general, and with them the old conditions of society."

"The state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy."

"The Moor [Marx] is in ecstasy—you know how much he loves any kind of row."

"A nation cannot be free and at the same time continue to oppress other nations. The emancipation of Germany cannot therefore take place without the emancipation of Poland from German oppression."

"The proletariat, the lowest stratum of our present society, cannot stir, cannot raise itself up, without the whole superincumbent strata of official society being sprung into the air."