We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends – the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it.
The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
Without analysis, no synthesis.
Don’t forget any affront done to you and to all our people, the time of revenge will come and must be put to good use.
What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another – no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.
It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment.
The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.
Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to die rather than cease to obey those whom they, their fathers and grandfathers, had called their masters; and submitted to be trampled on and horse-whipped by.
One day we shall certainly ‘reduce’ thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?