"The communists do not constitute a distinct party compared to other workers' parties. They have no interests different from the interests of the proletariat as a whole. They do not proclaim separate principles by which they wish to shape the proletarian movement."

"The theoretical positions of the communists are not based in any way on ideas or axioms invented or discovered by one or another reformer of the world. They are merely general statements about the real relationships of an existing class struggle, a historical movement taking place before our eyes." (Karl Marx)