Capitalism Quote by Clara Zetkin

...the transition from capitalism to Socialism and the liberation of the working class from the yoke of capitalism cannot be effected by slow changes,…

— J. Stalin

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

“The emancipation of the working class can only be achieved by the working class itself — without the assistance of governments.”

— Pierre-Jospeh Proudhon

“The goal of the working class is liberation from exploitation. This goal is not reached and cannot be reached by a new directing and…

— Noam Chomsky

The working class must control the factories and the country

— Alan Woods

Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism.

— Terry Eagleton

“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

I still believe that workers must be the basic force which must organize and eventually transform society (along with peasants in poor countries). This…

— Michael Yates

Capitalism creates a huge community of producers who are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor, and an…

— Albert Einstein

“Our radicals fail to realize that to accomplish the reorganization of work, it is necessary to have workers – and workers with the free…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its verge during…

— Leo Tolstoy

...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