The Communist Manifesto

prostitution both public and private.

The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital.

This person must, indeed, be swept out of the way, and made impossible.

You must, therefore, confess that by "individual" you mean no other person than the bourgeois, than the middle-class owner of property.

widen, to enrich, to promote the existence of the laborer.

In bourgeois society, therefore, the past dominates the present; in communist society, the present dominates the past.

In bourgeois society, living labor is but a means to increase accumulated labor. In communist society, accumulated labor is but a means to

Communists, therefore, are on the one hand practically, the most advanced and resolute section of the working-class parties of every country, that section which pushes forward all others; on the other hand, theoretically, they have over the great mass of the proletariat the advantage of clearly understanding the lines of march, the conditions, and the ultimate gener

Communists are distinguished from the other working-class parties by this only:

In the national struggles of the proletarians of the differ

previous historical movements were movements of minorities, or in the interest of minorities. The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority, in the interest of the immense majority.

They have nothing of their own to secure and to fortify; their mission is to destroy all previous securities for, and insurances of, individual property.