"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 …"

"Communists scorn to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble a…"

"The abolition of private property is therefore by no means the result of an arbitrary act of will, but the necessary result of the development of the productive forces."

"The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation."

"The proletariat, the lowest stratum of our present society, cannot stir, cannot raise itself up, without the whole superincumbent strata of official society being sprung into the air."