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  • The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.

    Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.249, Oxford University Press, USA
  • The Communist Manifesto was correct but we see the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie yielding to democratic organizations. In my judgment success lies in a steady [peaceful] advance [rather] than in a catastrophic crash.

    Success   Peace   Lying  
  • In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

    Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.71, Haymarket Books
  • A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

    Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1908). “Manifesto of the Communist Party”
  • It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.

    Air   Hands   Buttons  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

    Birthday   Class   Ideas  
    Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “The Communist Manifesto (Diversion Classics)”, p.26, Diversion Books
  • Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones.

    Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1973). “Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by Friedrich Engels”, p.76, University of Chicago Press
  • Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents!

  • Most people who read "The Communist Manifesto" probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of "the workers". Thomas Sowell .

    Couple   Men   Ideas  
  • Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. Think about it, 1848 Karl Marx, Communism.... I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS, my colleagues. I yield back all the rules, regulations, fear, and intimidation of our current system.

  • A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the Party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

    Party   Europe   Police  
    Karl Marx (2018). “The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings: & Selected Writings”, p.9, Pan Macmillan
  • In 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. ... I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS.

    Retail   Income   Irs  
  • In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

    Karl Marx (1950). “Communist Manifesto: The revolutionary text that changed the course of history”, p.1831, Harriman House Limited
  • Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production

    Karl Marx (1950). “Communist Manifesto: The revolutionary text that changed the course of history”, p.1844, Harriman House Limited
  • Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.

    Mean   World   Able  
    Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1998). “The Communist Manifesto and Its Relevance for Today”, p.50, Resistance Books
  • In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.

    BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.52, BookCaps Study Guides
  • The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.

    Winning   World   Uniting  
    "The Communist Manifesto". Book by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, 1848.
  • Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other.

    Class   Two   Bourgeoisie  
    Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.40, Haymarket Books
  • Men make their own history

    The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon pt. 1 (1852)
  • The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!

    Country   Winning   Men  
    BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.130, BookCaps Study Guides
  • In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party

    Party   Liberty   May  
    Karl Marx (2015). “Manifesto of the Communist Party”, p.18, Booklassic
  • You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.

    Karl Marx (1950). “Communist Manifesto: The revolutionary text that changed the course of history”, p.1839, Harriman House Limited
  • The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

    Karl Marx, Frederick Engels (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.145, Haymarket Books
  • ...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.

    Karl Marx (2015). “Manifesto of the Communist Party”, p.40, Booklassic
  • It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.

    Karl Marx (2018). “The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings: & Selected Writings”, p.11, Pan Macmillan
  • The enormous dynamic and creative, as well as destructive energy of capitalism... is written up with more praise and more respect by Marx and Engels in the 1848 Communist Manifesto than probably by anyone since. I don't think anyone has ever said so precisely and with such awed admiration how great capitalism is, how inventive, how innovative, how dynamic, how much force of creativity it unleashes.

    "Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism". PBS documentary, June 2005.
  • The so-called materialistic conception of history, with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the Communist Manifesto, still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.

    Mind   Genius   Elements  
    Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.99, Lulu Press, Inc
  • The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.

    BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.18, BookCaps Study Guides
  • Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

    Karl Marx (2013). “The Communist Manifesto”, p.116, Simon and Schuster
  • Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

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