"The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, in…"

"The English working class is nothing but a mass of isolated, mutually hostile atoms, each striving to exploit the others."

"Every step of real movement is more important than a dozen programmes."

"But the revolution is not merely a question of seizing power; it is also a question of radically transforming the whole of society, of creating new social relations and a new morality."

"The abolition of private property is therefore by no means the result of an arbitrary act of will, but the necessary result of the development of the productive forces."