In 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels introduced the political philosophy of Communism in a pamphlet called The Communist Manifesto. Communism has failed every time it’s been tried, most notably in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Venezuela, and Cuba. Since its inception, this totalitarian form of government has caused the deaths of one hundred million people at the hands of Communist dictators Lenin, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Castro, and others. Here are some of Karl Marx’s quotes:
“Accuse your enemy of what you are doing, as you are doing it to create confusion.”
“The theory of Communism may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”
“For us the issue cannot be the alteration of private property but only its annihilation, not the smoothing over of class antagonisms but the abolition of classes not the improvement of the existing society but the foundation of a new one.”
“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.”
The Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things.”
“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.”
“In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.”
“The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that … each man is a sovereign being. This is the illusion, dream, and postulate of Christianity.”
“We have seen above, that the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy.”
“The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible.
“In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life’s prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!”
“The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions.”