"The proletariat needs the state, not for freedom, but for the suppression of its opponents."

"The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion."

"This Bonaparte, who constitutes himself chief of the lumpenproletariat, who here alone rediscovers in mass form the interests which he personally pursues, who recognizes in this scum, offal, refuse of…"

"The more the worker spends himself, the more powerful becomes the alien world of objects which he creates over and against himself, the poorer he himself — his inner world — becomes, the less belongs …"

"The product of labour is alienated from the worker; it becomes an alien object, a power independent of the producer."