"May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'."

"The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat…"

"The commodity is a mysterious thing, simply because in it the social character of men's labour appears to them as an objective character stamped upon the product of that labour."

"The ruling class, in order to maintain its rule, must constantly revolutionize the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society."

"Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list – the common seed within which all these f…"