Critique of the Gotha Program Quotes

“In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!”
― Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program

“Ognuno secondo le sue capacità; a ognuno secondo i suoi bisogni!”
― Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program

“Everyone should be able to attend to his religious as well as his bodily needs without the police sticking their nose in.”
― Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program

“Freedom consists in converting the state from an organ superimposed upon society into one completely subordinate to it”
― Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme

“Every step of real movement is more important than a dozen programmes.”
― Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program

“Defining by a general law the expenditures on the...school....is a very different thing from appointing the state as educator of the people. Government and church should rather be equally excluded from any influence on the school.”
― Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program