Friedrich Engels — "Communism is not a doctrine but a movement; it proceeds from facts and not from …"

"The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat …"

"In a communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible …"

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

"Society can no longer exist as a community of free and equal individuals, but only as a mass of isolated, mutually hostile atoms, each striving to exploit the others."

"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…"