One of the biggest and most dangerous mistakes made by Communists is the idea that a revolution can be made by revolutionaries alone. On the contrary, to be successful, all serious revolutionary work requires that the idea that revolutionaries are capable of playing the part only of the vanguard of the truly virile and advanced class must be understood and translated into action.

V. I. Lenin
On the Significance of Militant Materialism

What distinguishes bourgeois society from other class societies – from ancient society and from the social order of the Middle Ages? Precisely the fact that class domination does not rest on “acquired rights” but on real economic relations – the fact that wage labour is not a juridical relation, but purely an economic relation. In our juridical system there is not a single legal formula for the class domination of today. The few remaining traces of such formulae of class domination are (as that concerning servants), survivals of feudal society.

How can wage slavery be suppressed the “legislative way,” if wage slavery is not expressed the laws?

Rosa Luxemburg
Reform or Revolution

The modern state, no matter what its form, is essentially a capitalist machine — the state of the capitalists, the ideal personification of the total national capital. The more it proceeds to the taking over of productive forces, the more does it actually become the national capitalist, the more citizens does it exploit.

Anti-Dühring by Frederick Engels 1877

Assemblyman v. d. Osten said, that the uniform system of education leads towards differentiation. But the truth is that capitalism makes the great mass of the people uniform in the most brutal way and differentiates the people only in classes, and makes impossible the real differentiation among the classes of the people and through the whole people.


Karl Liebknecht
The Future Belongs to the People

Trump is a deranged criminal, a psychopath who dreams of selling Gaza’s ruins to the highest bidder. This is capitalism: where mass murderers become presidents, and genocide becomes a real estate deal. Smash imperialism, crush apartheid!

Women’s dependence on men today stems from men keeping women, whether wife, lover, or daughter. When that ceases, women will be free from men. Thus, we see that a woman has a double interest in the success of the workers’ cause – as a worker and as a woman. The words 'Proletarians of the World, Unite!' cannot but meet with a response in a woman’s heart. She cannot but join the ranks of the fighters for a socialist system, for a better future.

Nadezhda Krupskaya
The Woman Worker (1899)