"For him, the solution of present-day problems does not consist in public action but in the dialectical rotations of his brain."

"The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."

"Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor."

"The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political and intellectual life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social …"

"The advance of capitalist production develops a working class, which by education, tradition, and habit, looks upon the requirements of that mode of production as self-evident natural laws."