Communist Manifesto Quotes

• Most people who read "The Communist Manifesto" probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of "the workers". Thomas Sowell .

  Thomas Sowell

  Couple, Men, Ideas

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• It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.

  Lester Bangs

  Air, Hands, Buttons

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

  Karl Marx

  Country, Communication, Winning

  Karl Marx (2013). “The Communist Manifesto”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

  Karl Marx

  World, Uniting, Economics

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

  Karl Marx

  Class, Development, Association

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.71, Haymarket Books

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• It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Consciousness, Social

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1973). “Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by Friedrich Engels”, p.5, University of Chicago Press

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• 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.

  Karl Marx

  Struggle, Class, Bourgeoisie

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.52, BookCaps Study Guides

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• 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.

  Karl Marx

  Hands, Majority, Population

  Karl Marx (1950). “Communist Manifesto: The revolutionary text that changed the course of history”, p.1839, Harriman House Limited

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• The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Years, Class, Politics

  "The State and Revolution". Chapter 5, www.marxists.org. 1917.

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• The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.

  Karl Marx

  Bourgeoisie, Needs, Surface

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.18, BookCaps Study Guides

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• In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

  Karl Marx

  Increase, Proportion, Decrease

  Karl Marx (1950). “Communist Manifesto: The revolutionary text that changed the course of history”, p.1831, Harriman House Limited

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• Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Carpe Diem, Uniting, Nothing To Lose

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

  Karl Marx

  Fall, Victory, Bourgeoisie

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.837, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

  Karl Marx

  Communication, Communism, Riddle

  Karl Marx (2012). “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

  Karl Marx

  Religious, Atheist, Heart

  Karl Marx, Joseph O'Malley (1977). “Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy Of Right'”, p.131, CUP Archive

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• 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.

  Karl Marx

  Country, Struggle, Different

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “The Communist Manifesto (Diversion Classics)”, p.18, Diversion Books

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• Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents!

  George Habash

  Uniting, Tents, Nothing To Lose

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• The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

  Karl Marx

  Birthday, Class, Ideas

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “The Communist Manifesto (Diversion Classics)”, p.26, Diversion Books

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• The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.

  Karl Marx

  Communication, Mean, Civilization

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.249, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Two, Bourgeoisie

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.40, Haymarket Books

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• If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

  Karl Marx

  Certain, Marxist, Ifs

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1993). “Collected Works: Marx and Engels, 1880-83”, International Pub

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• All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

  Karl Marx

  Real, Men, Air

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1968). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected works in one volume”

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• It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.

  Karl Marx

  Religious, Water, Political

  Karl Marx (2018). “The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings: & Selected Writings”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophical, Dignity, Reason

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Collected works”

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• Actually, if you go back to what Marx said in The Communist Manifesto over a hundred years ago, when in talking about the constant revolutions in technology, he ended that paragraph by saying, "All that is sacred is profaned, all that is solid melts into air, and men and women are forced to face with sober senses our conditions of life and our relations with our kind." We're at that sort of turning point in human history.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Technology, Men, Talking

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