In Science, Each New Point Of View

Freedom Is The Recognition Of Necessity.

Just As Marx Used To Say About The French Marxists Of The Late 'seventies: All I Know Is That I Am Not A Marxist.

It Is No Longer A Question Anywhere Of Inventing Interconnections From Out Of Our Brains, But Of Discovering Them In The Facts.

The First Act By Virtue Of Which The State Really Constitutes Itself The Representative Of The Whole Of Societythe Taking Possession Of The Means Of Production In The Name Of Societythis Is, At The Same Time, Its Last Independent Act As A State. State Interference In Social Relations Becomes, In One Domain After Another, Superfluous, And Then Dies Out Of Itself; The Government Of Persons Is Replaced By The Administration Of Things, And By The Conduct Of Processes Of Production. The State Is Not Abolished. It Dies Out.

What Is Communism? Communism Is The Doctrine Of The Conditions Of The Liberation Of The Proletariat. What Is The Proletariat? The Proletariat Is That Class In Society Which Lives Entirely From The Sale Of Its Labor And Does Not Draw Profit From Any Kind Of Capital; Whose Weal And Woe, Whose Life And Death, Whose Sole Existence Depends On The Demand For Labor.