Quotes About Socialism

El trabajo es por esencia la actividad carente de libertad, inhumana y asocial, cuya condición y cuyo resultado es la propiedad privada. La superación de la propiedad privada, por tanto, solo será realidad cuando se la conciba como superación del trabajo.

You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.

The abolition of bourgeois individuality, bourgeois independence, and bourgeois freedom is undoubtedly aimed at.

From the standpoint of a higher economic form of society, private ownership of the globe by single individuals will appear quite as absurd as private ownership of one man by another. Even a whole society, a nation, or even all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not the owners of the globe. They are only its possessors, its usufructuaries, and, like boni patres familias, they must hand it down to succeeding generations in an improved condition.

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

Volume 2 of Capital has indeed been not only a 'sealed book', but also a forgotten one. To a large extent, it remains so to this very day.

What the bourgeoisie, therefore, produces, above all, is its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.

Es la declaración en quiebra de la economía "burguesa, expuesta ya de mano maestra, en su obra Apuntes de economía política según Stuart Mill por el gran erudito y crítico ruso N. Chernichevski.

Democracy is the road to Socialism.

You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population

The abolition of existing property relations is not at all a distinctive feature of Communism.

Qué en qué consiste el comunismo?, pues en que me la comas ahora mismo. Te falta fábrica Karl Marx - 1873

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labour employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labour employed.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.

The separation between the Man of Labour and the Instruments of Labout once established, such a state of things will maintain itself and reproduce itself upon a constantly increasing scale, until a new and fundamental revolution in the mode of production should again overturn it, and restore the original union in a new historical form.

Sanayinin geliÅŸmesiyle birlikte egemen s?n?f?n birçok kesimi kendini proletarya saflar?nda bulur ya da en az?ndan varl??? tehlikeye girer. Bu kesimler proletaryaya yeni ayd?nlanma ve ilerleme öÄŸeleri saÄŸlarlar.

The introduction of free competition is thus public declaration that from now on the members of society are unequal only to the extent that their capitals are unequal, that capital is the decisive power, and that therefore the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, have become the first class in society.

And on its part, German Socialism recognized more and more its own calling as the bombastic representative of the petty bourgeois philistine. It proclaimed the German nation to be the model nation, and the German petty philistine to be the typical man. To every villainous meanness of this model man it gave a hidden, higher, socialistic interpretation, the exact contrary of its real character.

That social revolution, it is true, was no novelty invented in 1848. Steam, electricity, and the self-acting mule were revolutionists of a rather more dangerous character than even citizens Barbés, Raspail and Blanqui. - Speech at anniversary of the People's Paper, April 1856

The advance of capitalist production develops a working class which by education, tradition and habit looks upon the requirements of that mode of production as self-evident natural laws.

Ognuno secondo le sue capacità; a ognuno secondo i suoi bisogni!

PROLETARIANS AND COMMUNISTS

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.