Best 16 quotes in «communist manifesto quotes» category

The Labor government of 1945, which was put in power by popular vote and did what the people wanted, was nearer the Marxist idea than any of the governments thrown up by revolution, French, Russian or other.

Soup kitchens were the prelude to revolution. The revolutionaries might talk about socialism, those who actually revolted wanted 'the right to work'- more capitalism, not its abolition.

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

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones.

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.

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

Men make their own history

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

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

Increasing prosperity for the capitalists has everywhere brought with it increasing prosperity for the proletariat, instead of the increasing misery which Marx foretold. The most advanced capitalist countries are also those where the working class has the highest standard of life.

The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

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

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

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

It is astonishing that Communism has been writing about itself in the most open way, in black and white, for 125 years, and even more openly, more candidly in the beginning. The [book:Communist Manifesto|30474, for instance, which everyone knows by name and which almost no one takes the trouble to read, contains even more terrible things than what has actually been done. It is perfectly amazing. The whole world can read, everyone is literate, yet somehow no one wants to understand. Humanity acts as if it does not understand what Communism is, as if it does not want to understand, is not capable of understanding.