Karl Marx: In His Own Words

"Money is the Jealous God of Israel, beside which no other God may exist. Money abases all the gods of mankind and changes them into commodities. The god of the Jews has been secularized and has become the god of the world. In emancipating itself from hucsterism and money, and thus from real and practical Judaism, our age would emancipate itself...by destroying the empirical essence of Judaism, the Jew will become impossibe."
Source Karl Marx-Engels Collected Works (London 1975ff),vol. iii,pp146-74

His early defense of using terror. One of the key elements of Totalitarianism.

"We are ruthless and ask no quarter from you. When our turn comes we shall not disguise our terrorism."
Marx-Engels Gesamt-Ausgabe, vol. vi pp 503-5

"Far from opposing the so-called excesses, those examples of popular vengeance against hated individuals or public buildings which have acquired hateful memories, we must not only condone these examples but lend them a helping hand."

Marx-Engels Gesamt-Ausgabe, vol. vii p 239

Betrayer of the Peasantry

Marx denounced the proposal to give 160 acres of public land to each peasant; he said peasants should be recruited with promises of land, but once a communist society was set up, land had to be collectively held.