"The English working class is, after all, only a branch of the German working class."

"It is not enough to abolish the existing relations of property, but rather to revolutionize them, to abolish the old relations of production in general, and with them the old conditions of society."

"We are not interested in the future for its own sake, but only in so far as it affects the present."

"The modern state, no matter what its form, is essentially a capitalist machine, the state of the capitalists, the ideal personification of the total national capital."

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