The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, i...s at the same time its ruling intellectual force. No more painters, no more scribblers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more royalists, no more radicals, no more imperialists, no more anarchists, no more socialists, no more communists, no more proletariat, no more democrats, no more republicans, no more bourgeois, no more aristocrats, no more arms, no more police, no more nations, an end at last to all this stupidity, nothing left, nothing at all, nothing, nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary mona...rchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By ...proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of ...the sinful world ... the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself n...atural science: there will be one science.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »