Karl Marx — "Democracy is the road to socialism."

"The worker is the owner of his labour power, but he cannot sell it without selling himself."

"The development of modern industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above …"

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

"The commodity is a mysterious thing, simply because in it the social character of men's labour appears to them as an objective character stamped upon the product of that labour."

"Has a real taler any existence except in the imagination, if only in the general or rather common imagination of man? Bring paper money into a country where this use of paper is unknown, and everyone …"