Critique of the Gotha Program

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!

Ognuno secondo le sue capacità; a ognuno secondo i suoi bisogni!

Everyone should be able to attend to his religious as well as his bodily needs without the police sticking their nose in.

Freedom consists in converting the state from an organ superimposed upon society into one completely subordinate to it

Every step of real movement is more important than a dozen programmes.

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.