Karl Marx Quotes

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

The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.

It is the historical mission of the Communist International to be the gravedigger of bourgeois society.

Democracy is of great importance for the working class in its struggle for freedom against the capitalists. But ... it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.

Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when the working people themselves take power in their hands the ruling classes resort to unheard-of crimes and shootings if it is a matter of protecting their money-bags.

Every departure from class struggle has fatal results for the destiny of socialism.

Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a mere division of labor. The workers and soldiers achieve the revolution, Guchkov and Miliukov "fortify" it.[...] This superintendent's approach to the historical process is exactly characteristic of the leaders of Menshevism, this handing out of instructions to various classes and then patronizingly criticizing their fulfillment.

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark.

We are the party of the Czechoslovak proletariat and our general headquarters are in Moscow.

In Russia bureaucracy as the ruling class is master of production and produce, and the Russian workers are an exploited class.

Overthrow the capitalist class.

The identification of the intellectuals with the revolutionary movement is dependent … on their complete rift with bourgeois ideology and liberalism …. The relationship of the intellectuals as a group with the working class is essentially an alliance. But the alliance can be established only on the … unadulterated principles of Marxism-Leninism.

It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism.

The socialist proletariat rejects any responsibility for the events being brought about by a blinded, a maddened ruling class …. All responsibility falls to the wielders of power today! It is "to be or not to be!" World-history is the world-court!

Who, if not the revolutionary intelligentsia, could promote the political development of the working class?

In the final account, the fate of our republic will depend upon whether the masses of the peasantry will go hand in hand with the working class

Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause; they are, as Lenin said, cogs and wheels in the whole revolutionary machine.

Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.

The accumulated experience of mankind in the struggle against exploitation, synthesized in Marxism, enabled the Mozambican revolutionary movement to benefit from and absorb that experience.

Karl Marx made a great contribution to the liberation cause of mankind, and because of his immortal exploits his name is still enshrined in the hearts of the working class and peoples of all countries.

But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.

When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.

‎The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.