Antonio Labriola

"Antonio Labriola, Storia, filosofia della storia, sociologia e materialismo storico, in Scritti varii: editi e inediti di filosofia e politica, collected and published by Benedetto Croce, Giuseppe Laterza & Figli, Bari, 1906."

"Antonio Labriola, Discorrendo di socialismo e di filosofia, in "Scritti filosofici e politici", Franco Barbieri (editor), Einaudi, Torino, 1973."

"Antonio Labriola, In memoria del Manifesto dei comunisti, in "Scritti filosofici e politici", Franco Barbieri (editor), Einaudi, Torino, 1973."

"Antonio Labriola, Socrate, Laterza, 1909."

"Antonio Labriola, Storia, filosofia della storia, sociologia e materialismo storico, in "Scritti filosofici e politici", Franco Barbieri (editor), Einaudi, Torino, 1973."

"In Milan, there is only one man, who is actually a woman, Kuliscioff."

"We will erect a monument to Giordano Bruno in Campo de' Fiori, in atonement for the sins of our ancestors, whose moral sloth was the cause of our delayed political progress, so that it may serve as a symbol to the multitudes of freedom of conscience, who will have it alive and powerful in time, when they grow in culture, and as a salutary warning to all the capable and all the lukewarm, who speak of conciliation without blushing."

"Giuseppe Garibaldi was a man of the people, and of that part of the people which, through its habit of frankness, sobriety of life and honesty of customs, is the most incorruptible. In his popular instincts as a lover of justice, a hater of privilege, a defender of the oppressed, and a persecutor of all tyranny, he will remain forever, and as in effigy, the noblest, simplest, and most persuasive example of true democracy."

"The doctrine of historical materialism, given the two elements of economic articulation and class friction, becomes the key to understanding true revolutions; that is, those changes in the complex state of society from which innovations in law, new political directions and new moral dispositions have derived."

"Antonio Labriola, Da un secolo all'altro, in "Scritti filosofici e politici", Franco Barbieri (editor), Einaudi, Torino, 1973."

"Antonio Labriola, Del materialismo storico. Dilucidazione preliminare, in "Scritti filosofici e politici", Franco Barbieri (editor), Einaudi, Torino, 1973."

"Ich bin kein Paladin von Marx, und ich nehme alle Kritiken an; ich bin selbst ein Kritiker in allem, was ich schreibe, und ich verleugne nicht den Satz: Verstehen heißt überwinden. Aber es scheint mir doch notwendig, hinzuzufügen: Überwinden heißt verstanden haben."

"Die Proletarier können nur die Zukunft im Auge haben."

"Der kritische Kommunismus fabriziert keine Revolutionen, er bereitet keine Insurrektion vor, er bewaffnet keine Revolten."

"Das denkwürdige Datum, an dem das Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei veröffentlicht wurde (Februar 1848), erinnert an unseren ersten und unanfechtbaren Eintritt in die Geschichte."