Quote #35

A spectre is haunting Europe; the spectre of Communism.

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  1. The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
  2. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inev…
  3. It [the bourgeoisie] has pitilessly torn asunder the motley of ties that bound man to his 'natural superiors,' and left remaining no other …
  4. Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to ensla…
  5. Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distingui…
  6. But every class struggle is a political struggle.
  7. The theory of Communism may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
  8. Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests.

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