The Communist Manifesto

The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!

In short, the communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things

they wish to attain their ends by peaceful means, necessarily doomed to failure

Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form

The communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional relations; no wonder that its development involved the most radical rupture with traditional ideas

But communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience

The working men have no country. We cannot take from them what they have not got

The communists have no need to introduce community of women; it has existed almost from time immemorial.

The communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.

The bourgeois

Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty.