"Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another."

"The proletariat has nothing to lose but its chains. It has a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!"

"In a word, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things."

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

"Workers are worse off than slaves, because slaves are at least guaranteed a subsistence."