From The First Day To This, Sheer

...it Was Always Our View That In Order To Attain This [proletarian Revolution] And The Other Far More Important Aims Of The Future Social Revolution, The Working Class Must First Take Possession Of The Organised Political Power Of The State And By Its Aid Crush The Resistance Of The Capitalist Class And Organise Society Anew.

By The Same Right Under Which France Took Flanders, Lorraine And Alsace, And Will Sooner Or Later Take Belgium — By That Same Right Germany Takes Over Schleswig; It Is The Right Of Civilisation As Against Barbarism, Of Progress As Against Stability.

Naturally, The Workers Are Perfectly Free; The Manufacturer Does Not Force Them To Take His Materials And His Cards, But He Says To Them..'if You Don't Like To Be Frizzled In My Frying- Pan, You Can Take A Walk Into The Fire.

Political Economy Came Into Being As A Natural Result Of The Expansion Of Trade, And With Its Appearance Elementary, Unscientific Huckstering Was Replaced By A Developed System Of Licensed Fraud, An Entire Science Of Enrichment.

The Proletariat Uses The State Not In The Interests Of Freedom But In Order To Hold Down Its Adversaries, And As Soon As It Becomes Possible To Speak Of Freedom The State As Such Ceases To Exist.