Class Struggle Quotes

"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." "Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners" "The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation" "One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers and the disarming of the bourgeoisie" "The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas" "The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property" "The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class" "The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs" "Capital is dead labor which vampire-like lives only by sucking living labor and lives the more the more labor it sucks" "The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament" "The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property" "It is not a hyperbole to say that the poor are enslaved by their poverty and the middle classes that they have bought into a myth about themselves" "Poverty is the worst form of violence" "There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher" "The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor" "In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile" "The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois" "Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich—that is the democracy of capitalist society"