“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.”
Quote by Karl Marx
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Communist Manifesto: The revolutionary text that changed the course of history
Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, this seminal text analyzes the class struggle and advocates for the establishment of a classless society through the overthrow of the capitalist system. more
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