"We are not dealing here with a philosophical theory, but with a practical movement."

"The demand for the abolition of private property is nothing but the expression of the revolutionary spirit of the proletariat."

"But the state is by no means a power forced on society from without; just as little is it 'the reality of the ethical idea', 'the image and reality of reason', as Hegel maintains. Rather, it is a prod…"

"It is precisely the alteration of nature by men, not solely nature as such, which is the most essential and immediate basis of human thought."

"The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations."