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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

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Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working me...more

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If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right...more

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No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind

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The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, i.e. is compelled by social conditions, to sell the whole of his act...more

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Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

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The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.

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Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be me...more

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Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal ...more

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Everyone should be able to attend to his religious as well as his bodily needs without the police sticking their nose in.

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In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesi...more

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Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

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Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

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Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various way; the point, however, is to change it