Key Quotes from the Communist Manifesto
Workers of the world, unite!
The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.
The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.
The distinguishing feature of Communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property.
Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation.
In bourgeois society, therefore, the past dominates the present; in Communist society, the present dominates the past.
The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere.
In bourgeois society, capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.
The Communists are further reproached with desiring to abolish countries and nationality. […] The working men have no country.
Machinery, gifted with the wonderful power of shortening and fructifying human labor, we behold starving and overworking it.
Modern bourgeois society […] more and more simplifies the class antagonism.
Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other.
The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations.
A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of communism.
The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.
The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production.
The bourgeoisie keeps more and more doing away with the scattered state of the population.
All previous historical movements were movements of minorities, or in the interest of minorities.
The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The essence of communism consists in this, that it does away with the domination of the product over the producer.
The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together.
The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns.
The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.
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.
The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns.
The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe.
Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other.
The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations.
In place of the old wants, satisfied by the production of the country, we find new wants, requiring for their satisfaction the products of distant lands and climes.
The proletariat is the mass of workers who are exploited by the capitalists.
The bourgeoisie constantly exploits the proletariat for its own gain and profit.
The bourgeois class controls the means of production and exploits the working class to accumulate wealth.
The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
The emancipation of the proletariat can only be achieved through a revolution that overthrows the bourgeoisie and establishes a socialist society.
Work is transformed from a means of self-expression to a means of survival under the capitalist system.
The capitalist system perpetuates class oppression and inequality.
Capitalism alienates the worker from the products of their labor.
The bourgeoisie commodifies everything, reducing all human relationships to economic transactions.
The Communist revolution aims to establish a society where the means of production are collectively owned and the fruits of labor are shared by all.
Under capitalism, the rich get richer while the poor get poorer.
Capitalism breeds greed and fosters an individualistic mindset.
The bourgeoisie controls the state apparatus to protect its own interests.
The Communist movement seeks to empower the working class and create a society based on cooperation and equality.
Capitalism exploits the natural resources of the Earth for profit, leading to environmental degradation.
The Communist revolution aims to create a society where the well-being of all is prioritized over the pursuit of individual wealth.
Capitalism perpetuates a culture of consumerism and materialism.
The Communist movement seeks to abolish the class system and create a society where everyone’s needs are met.
The working class is the true power in society, and it has the potential to bring about significant social change.