The Communist Manifesto

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!

The history of all past society has consisted in the development of class antagonisms, antagonisms that assumed different forms at different epochs.

The history of all past society has consisted in the development of class antagonisms, antagonisms that assumed different forms at different epochs.
But

What else does the history of ideas prove, than that intellectual production changes its character in proportion as material production is changed? The

In either case, it is both reactionary and Utopian

they even see the moment approaching when they will completely disappear as an independent section of modern society,

they forget that the modern bourgeoisie is the necessary offspring of their own form of society.

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

Political power, properly so called, is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another.

and will thereby have abolished its own supremacy as a class