Democracy is the road to socialism, and writing for the Reader Weekly is the road to being an unemployed 32-year-old whose relatives still put money in his birthday cards.
The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material.
Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.
So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
Usury lives in the pores of production, as it were, just as the gods of Epicurus lived in the space between the worlds.
The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.
The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry.
All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.
The weapon of criticism can never replace the criticism of weapons.
Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life.
Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses.
Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.
The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.
The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.
In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interest of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality.
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.
Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.
An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.
In all of human history no country or no people have suffered such terrible slavery, conquest and foreign oppression and no country and no people have struggled so strenuously for their emancipation than Sicily and the Sicilians.
Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.