"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…"

"The demand for the abolition of private property is nothing but the expression of the revolutionary spirit of the proletariat."

"The first requisite of all history is the production of the means to satisfy these needs, the production of material life itself."

"The first great division of labour between the two sexes had for its basis simply the difference of sex, and the first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the an…"

"It is no longer a question of whether the proletariat will seize power, but when."