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all that is solid melts into air

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence…

—p.10 The Communist Manifesto Manifesto of the Communist Party (1) by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx
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panegyric

Marx and Engels left no detailed blueprint of what a socialist or communist society should look like, something that led academic Marxists to pronounce that Marx’s originality lay in his philosophy and economics. Others utilized his panegyrics celebrating the revolutionary capacities of capital to argue that the gravediggers were the capitalists themselves

—p.xxi Introduction to the Communist Manifesto (iii) by Tariq Ali
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what distinguishes us from the anarchists

We need revolutionary government, we need (for a certain transitional period) a state. This is what distinguishes us from the anarchists. The difference between the revolutionary Marxists and the anarchists is not only that the former stand for centralized, large-scale communist production, whi…

—p.75 The April Theses The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution ('The April Theses') (1) by V. I. Lenin