Communist Manifesto Quotes

Suggestion of the Communist Manifesto was 'abolition of all right of inheritance.' Looking backward upon the past history of estate taxes, we have to realize that they more and more have approached the goal set by Marx. Estate taxes of the height they have already attained for the upper brackets are no longer to be qualified as taxes. They are measures of expropriation.

Friedrich Engels’ first draft of the Communist Manifesto included a deliberate undermining of family bonds as part of the Marxian political agenda, though Marx himself was politically astute enough to leave that out of the final version.

Communism is nonsense.

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.

I can't understand Karl Marx, so how can I be a Communist?

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

Communism begins where atheism begins.

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the Party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

I'm a Leninist. Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that's my goal, too.

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism.

The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.

Communism has not died. We naively thought in the '90s we had buried communism, but this is not true. It is not dead, and it will be coming back.

The division of society into the producing and non-producing classes ... capital and labor.... Antagonism and opposition of interest is introduced in the community; capital and labor stand opposed.

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they're going to do and guarantees them victory; that's why they're fanatic.

First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

[Communism] is the 20th century's most extraordinary political aberration.

When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.

All power to the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies.

I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.