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Karl Marx on Communism

1818–1883 Germany

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The theory of Communism may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

and Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto (1848)

A specter is haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

The Communist Manifesto (1848)

A spectre is haunting Europe; the spectre of Communism.

and Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto (1848)

The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involved the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.

The Communist Manifesto: Chapter II. Proletarians and Communists (1848)

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 labour of others by means of such appropriation.

and Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto (1848)

It destroys the conditions for the existence of class antagonism, destroys classes in general, and thereby also its domination as a class.

Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.

The German Ideology (1845)

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