"The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have "
"Future history resolves itself, in their eyes, into the propaganda and the practical carrying out of their social plans."
"The history of all hiterto exsiting society up to now is the history of class struggle."
"The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal societz has not done awaz with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones. Our epoch, the epoch of bourgeoise, possesses, however, this dir"
"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."
"Each step in the development of the bourgeoisie was accompanied by a corresponding political advance in that class... The bourgeoisie, historically, has played a most revolutionary part. The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations"
"The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere. The bourgeoisie has, through its exploitation of the world market, given a cosmoplitan character to "
"The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together... We see then: the means of production and of exchange, on whose foundation the bourgeoisie built itself up, were generated in feud"