Some important quotes from Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto
“By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists who own the social means of production and employ wage labor. By proletarians we mean the class of modern salaried workers who, possessing no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to be able to live. "(Engels note from 1888)
“It is high time that the Communists openly expose their way of seeing, their goals and their tendencies to the whole world and oppose the legends of the Communist specter with a manifesto of the party itself. "
"Modern governments are only a committee managing the common affairs of the bourgeoisie as a whole."
“Bourgeois relations of production and exchange, bourgeois property relations, modern bourgeois society which has given birth as if by magic to such powerful means of production and exchange resembles the sorcerer who can no longer control the infernal powers that 'he mentioned "
“The middle class […] fight against the bourgeoisie because it compromises their existence as a middle class. […] If they act revolutionary, it is out of the ever-present fear of falling into the proletariat; they therefore defend their future interests, and not their current interests; they give up their own point of view to place themselves at that of the proletariat "
“A specter haunts Europe - the specter of communism. "
“The history of any society up to the present day is the history of the class struggle. "
“The proletarians have nothing to lose except their chains. They have a world to win. Workers of all countries, unite! "
