Hazrat Mahal, Begum Of Oudh,

Music Is The Mirror Of Reality.

The National Debt Has Given Rise To Joint Stock Companies, To Dealings In Negotiable Effects Of All Kinds, And To Agiotage , In A Word To Stock-exchange Gambling And The Modern Bankocracy .

Communism... Is The Genuine Resolution Of The Antagonism Between Man And Nature And Between Man And Man; It Is The True Resolution Of The Conflict Between Existence And Essence, Objectification And Self-affirmation, Freedom And Necessity, Individual And Species. It Is The Riddle Of History Solved And Knows Itself As The Solution.

Merely Quantitative Differences, Beyond A Certain Point, Pass Into Qualitative Changes.

The History Of All Previous Societies Has Been The History Of Class Struggles.