"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 …"

"But the state is by no means a power forced on society from without; just as little is it 'the reality of the ethical idea', 'the image and reality of reason', as Hegel maintains. Rather, it is a prod…"

"What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable."

"The old society, with its classes and class antagonisms, is to be replaced by an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

"The modern individual family is founded on the open or concealed domestic slavery of the wife."