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A spectre is haunting Europe⁠—the spectre of Communism.
Karl Marx1818–1883The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.
Karl Marx1818–1883The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
- History
The executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.
Karl Marx1818–1883The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
- Government
The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers.
Karl Marx1818–1883The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
- Economics
- Work
What the bourgeoisie, therefore, produces, above all, is its own grave-diggers.
Karl Marx1818–1883The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
- Economics
In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
Karl Marx1818–1883The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
- Economics
Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
Karl Marx1818–1883The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
- Freedom
WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!
Karl Marx1818–1883The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
- Work
Brexit means Brexit, and we’re going to make a success of it.
Theresa Mayborn 1956Theresa May Says UK Will Make Success Of Brexit When She Is PM, Sky News—Youtube (11 July 2016).
In the anarchic world of international politics, it is better to be Godzilla than Bambi.
John Mearsheimerborn 1947“China’s Unpeaceful Rise”, Current History (2006) vol. 105 (690) p. 162
- Power
A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956
- America
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
- Clever Jabs
The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
- Clever Jabs
Socialism is the theory that the desire of one man to get something he hasn’t got is more pleasing to a just God than the desire of some other man to keep what he has got.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956A Little Book in C Major, New York, NY, John Lane Company (1916) p. 51
- Economics
Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob’s fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavoured and coloured and put into cans.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956Notes on Democracy (1926)