Energy Quote by Clara Zetkin

...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the future social…

— Friedrich Engels

“Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another. If the proletariat during its contest with the…

— Karl Marx

“When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of…

— Karl Marx

The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.

— Karl Marx

Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more reason to…

— Paul Lafargue

For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they…

— Clara Zetkin

The economic class struggle is a struggle against inessanlty intensified exploitation: not only against the brutal material form of exploitation, capitalism's tendency to reduce…

— Louis Althusser

This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.

— Noam Chomsky

“...the working classes—that motor of social transformation which Marx increasingly stipulated for the role of the proletariat; the dispossessed and alienated revolutionary vehicle of…

— J. P. Nettl

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

— Karl Marx

“The modern proletariat was not led by the social-democracy into class struggle. On the contrary, the international social-democratic movement was called into being by…

— Rosa Luxemburg

the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before.

— Richard Cobden