the communist manifesto by karl marx and fredrich engels_ 20.05.26 - 21.05.26

“let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. the proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. they have a world to win.

workingmen of all countries unite!”

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“in proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.”

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“you are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. but in your existing society private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. you reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.

in one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. precisely so: that is just what we intend.”

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"according to this, bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.”

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"he becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him."

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"communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriations."

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"the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class"

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"in proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another will also be put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be put an end to. in proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end."