Status Updates From البيان الشيوعي

"Hitherto, every form of society has been based, as we have already seen, on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes. But in order to oppress a class, certain conditions must be assured to it under which it can, at least, continue its slavish existence."

"No sooner is the exploitation of the laborer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc."

"The conditions of bourgeois society are too narrow to comprise the wealth created by them. And how does the bourgeoisie get over these crises?... by paving the way for more extensive and more destructive crises, and by diminishing the means whereby crises are prevented."

"Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones."

"[The bourgeoisie] has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and has left remaining no other bond between man and man than naked self-interest and callous "cash payment.""

"The bourgeoisie has at last, since the establishment of modern industry and of the world market, conquered for itself, in the modern representative state, exclusive political sway."

"Why should the bourgeoisie squawk about losing their private property, when they themselves have stolen all their property from the hard-working, upstanding proletarians and farmers who produced it? Why should the bourgeoisie cry out that the Communists want to abolish freedom and individuality, when the bourgeoisie have themselves enslaved the huge majority of the population in the factories?"

"In its pride of triumph the bourgeoisie became insolent, and in its insolence it forgot that in the depths from which it had risen so far, it was itself producing its fatal enemy, the proletariat. "What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers.""

"If the people were occupied by foreign powers, a nationalist was concerned with the past glories of his people, and with political campaigns to expel the foreigners and unify the country."

Israel and the US anyone?

"The highly Romantic sense of social wrong, and the consequent highly Romantic drive toward social justice, which Marx and Engels shared to a high degree, are the ethical and emotional bases of any socialist movement."

"The hundreds of millions of people who have called themselves Socialists and/or Communists have all believed that the system of private property they knew- whether it was in industrial capital, piles of money, landed estates, serfs, or slaves- was wrong, and that the consequent inequality between the rich and the poor was wrong, and that any exploitation of one human being by another was wrong."