Karl Marx

We see, therefore, how the modern bourgeoisie is itself the product of a long course of development, of a series of revolutions in the modes of production and of exchange.

have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole

they point out and bring to the front the common interests of the entire proletaria

Formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat

The abolition of existing property relations is not at all a distinctive feature of communism.

modern bourgeois private property is the final and most complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products that is based on class antagonisms, on the exploitation of the many by the few.

Abolition of private property.

that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the laborer lives merely to increase capital, and is allowed to live only in so far as the interest of the ruling class requires it.

Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriations.

as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class made into a law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economical conditions of existence of your class.