Men make their own history

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

I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of 'from each according to…

— T. Coleman Andrews

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

— Karl Marx

Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production

— Karl Marx

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…

— Karl Marx

The enormous dynamic and creative, as well as destructive energy of capitalism... is written up with more praise and more respect by Marx and…

— Christopher Hitchens

In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interest of the…

— Karl Marx

The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of…

— Karl Marx

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

The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder…

— Karl Marx

Most people who read "The Communist Manifesto" probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never…

— Thomas Sowell

“I feel the color in my cheeks rising again. I must be the color of The Communist Manifesto.”

— E.L. James

If the citizens of the United States are to turn away from the Communist Manifesto and preserve the purpose of the Declaration of Independence,…

— Chuck Norris

In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of…

— Karl Marx

Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist…

— James Traficant