"The development of productive forces has reached a point where the existence of private property and the bourgeoisie are incompatible with further social development."

"The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre, go to the ball, go to the pub, think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save and the greater becomes your treasure which nei…"

"Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of whole cloth; he does not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the p…"

"Under no circumstances does Marx sanction the use of violence to achieve his aims. He was a man of peace."

"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…"