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“Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it.”

Revolution Nostalgia Communism Introduction Romanticism Karl Marx The Communist Manifesto

Book:The Communist Manifesto

Source: The Communist Manifesto

“Revolutions in short are made in the name of the proletariat, not by it, and usually in countries where the proletariat hardly exists.”

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Book:The Communist Manifesto

Source: The Communist Manifesto

“Soup kitchens were the prelude to revolution. The revolutionaries might talk about socialism, those who actually revolted wanted 'the right to work'- more capitalism, not its abolition.”

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Book:The Communist Manifesto

Source: The Communist Manifesto

“Revolutions occurred in almost every European city with more than 50,000 inhabitants. The occasion for the revolutions was hunger.”

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Book:The Communist Manifesto

Source: The Communist Manifesto

“Increasing prosperity for the capitalists has everywhere brought with it increasing prosperity for the proletariat, instead of the increasing misery which Marx foretold. The most advanced capitalist countries are also those where the working class has the highest standard of life.”

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Book:The Communist Manifesto

Source: The Communist Manifesto