Karl Marx — "The first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletaria…"

"Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it – when it exists for us as capital, or when it is directly possessed, eaten, drunk, worn, inhabited, etc.…"

"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 abolition of bourgeois individuality, bourgeois independence, and bourgeois freedom is undoubtedly aimed at."

"The meaning of history is the progress of humanity toward freedom and self-consciousness."

"A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties."