Men make their own history

Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents!

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

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

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.

Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones.

When you mention the word ideology, everyone has communism in the back of their minds, which was an entirely well formulated ideology and statement of belief. You read the Communist Manifesto and you know what the core of it is.

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