More Quotes by Karl Marx
The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races.
...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.
Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded.
We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done by social development, in which education must play a part.
A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.
The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry
Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.
There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.
Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.
History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.
