The bourgeoisie ... has been the first to show what man's activity can bring about. It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egy...ptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts and Gothic cathedrals.... The bourgeoisie ... draws all, even the most barbarian nations into civilization.... It has created enormous cities ... and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life.... The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a worl...d to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Constant revolutionizing of production ... distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations..., with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its ci...tizens by narrow statutes. The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression of that will by the public vote of all citizens, without distinctions of race, color, occupation, or sex, is the only means by which that will can be ascertained.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »