The Communist Manifesto

by Karl Marx

A part of the bourgeoisie is desirous of redressing social grievances in order to secure the continued existence of bourgeois society. To this section belong economists, philanthropists, humanitarians, improvers of the condition of the working class, organizers of charity, members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, temperance fanatics, hole-and-corner reformers of every imaginable kind.

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

They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.