No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.

Of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie today, the proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class.

In place of the bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, shall we have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition…

The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters …

At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten, then twelve, and ultimately fourt…