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“All the other large and small nationalities and peoples are destined to perish before long in the revolutionary world storm. The next world war will result in the disappearance from the face of the earth not only of reactionary classes and dynasties, but also of entire reactionary peoples. And that, too, is a step forward.”

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Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels was a German philosopher, politician, economist, and revolutionary, co-founder of communist theory with Karl Marx. He was born on November 28, 1820, and died on August 5, 1895. more

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