"The first great division of labour, that between town and country, condemned the rural population to thousands of years of mental stupor, and the urban population to the domination of each individual …"

"We are not interested in the future for its own sake, but only in so far as it affects the present."

"It is not enough to be a revolutionary. One must also be a good shot."

"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force."

"The whole history of mankind (since the dissolution of primitive tribal society, holding land in common ownership) has been a history of class struggles, contests between exploiting and exploited, rul…"