Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Communist Manifesto.
Philosophical Viewpoints: Communism Quotes
[The fundamental] proposition is: that in every historical epoch, the prevailing mode of economic production and exchange, and the social organization necessarily following from it, form the basis...
Society and Class Quotes
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. (Section1.1)
Competition Quotes
The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. (Section1.18)
Power Quotes
Freeman and slave, patrician and plebian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, no...
Rules and Order Quotes
A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism. (Section1.1)
Tradition and Customs Quotes
[The fundamental] proposition is: that in every historical epoch, the prevailing mode of economic production and exchange, and the social organization necessarily following from it, form the basis...
Women and Femininity Quotes
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. (Section1.1)