Karl Marx Quotes

There is no alternative to class struggle.

The modern proletarian class doesn't carry out its struggle according to a plan set out in some book or theory; the modern workers' struggle is a part of history, a part of social progress, and in the middle of history, in the middle of progress, in the middle of the fight, we learn how we must fight...

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

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Regardless of the degree of class consciousness of their members, the trade unions are, by their very nature, driven on to the revolutionary goal.

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.

History is made in the class struggle and not in bed.

The Socialist movement is the abolitionist movement of the 20th century.

...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.

Organizing the working class in England or the U.S. or any other advanced capitalist country has been a daunting challenge.

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

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

The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles...Social democracy...is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh. Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.

In their day, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin represented the aspirations and demands of the exploited working masses, and the cause of socialism was inseparably linked with their names.

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

The conclusion you can draw from these characteristics is that you have an uneven development of class activity and an uneven development of class consciousness in the working class.

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.

I was working with C. L. R. James; I believed in Marxist ideas about the labor and movement and the workers being the secret to the future. And I learned differently just by being in Detroit and being married to Jimmy Boggs.

To you, workers of Ireland, we address ourselves. AGITATE in the workshop, in the field, in the factory, until you arouse your brothers to hatred of the slavery of which we are all the victims. EDUCATE, that the people may no longer be deluded by illusory hopes of prosperity under any system of society of which monarchs or noblemen, capitalists or landlords form an integral part. ORGANIZE, that a solid, compact and intelligent force, conscious of your historic mission as a class, you may seize the reins of political power whenever possible and, by intelligent application of the working-class ballot, clear the field of action for the revolutionary forces of the future.