"We are not dealing with a simple economic doctrine but with a new world outlook."

"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."

"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."

"But the revolution is not merely a question of seizing power; it is also a question of radically transforming the whole of society, of creating new social relations and a new morality."

"The first act by virtue of which the state really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of society — the taking possession of the means of production in the name of society — this first a…"