"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce."

"In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished;…"

"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."

"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them."

"The worker becomes a commodity all the more vile as he creates more goods. The more the world of things increases in value, the more the world of men devalues itself; one is a direct result of the oth…"