Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.

Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God.

The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.