Political Economy regards the proletarian ... like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle.[...] (1) What is the meaning, in the development of mankind, of this reduction of the greater part of mankind to abstract labor? (2) What mistakes are made by the piecemeal reformers, who either want to raise wages and thereby improve the situation of the working class, or - like Proudhon - see equality of wages as the goal of social revolution?.

It is clear that the arm of criticism cannot replace the criticism of arms. Material force can only be overthrown by material force, but theory itself becomes …

Feuerbach is the only one who has a serious, critical attitude to the Hegelian dialectic and who has made genuine discoveries in this field. He is in fact the …

Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, t…

Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.

We must remember that the real problem is not how to produce some improvement in the condition of the working man- for that has to a certain extent been attain…

The most important thing is that man should be the measure of all structures, including economic structures, and not that man be made to measure for those stru…