karl marx and Friderich engel
Manifesto of the Communist Party
In the sooner epochs of records, we find nearly anywhere a complex association of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. (Location 20)
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The feudal gadget of enterprise, (Location 33)
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under which industrial manufacturing changed into monopolised by closed guilds, now no longer sufficed for the growing wants of the brand new markets. The production machine took its region. (Location 33)
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Note: He presents this pessimistic view of capitalism where it is the gradual decline in morals. A machine that needs more and more to keep the fire burning for its survival. The old organisation now does not siffice and in needs for more it consumes more. It is right in the sense that organisations, at least successful ones, need to grow and this may be a very pessimistic but not an illogical reduction from that state
up that single, unconscionable freedom—Free Trade. In one phrase, for exploitation, veiled through religious and political illusions, naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation. (Location 58)
The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every career hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has transformed the health practitioner, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the person of science, into its paid salary labourers. (Location 60)
To the fantastic chagrin of Reactionists, it has drawn from under the toes of enterprise the country wide floor on which it stood. (Location 78)
In place of the old wants, glad by the productions of the us of a, we discover new needs, requiring for their satisfaction the products of remote lands and climes. (Location 82)
In location of the vintage local and country wide seclusion and self-sufficiency, we have intercourse in each course, universal inter-dependence of countries. (Location 83)
National one-sidedness and slim-mindedness come to be increasingly impossible, and from the numerous national and local literatures, there arises a international literature. (Location 85)
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The bourgeoisie keeps increasingly more removing the scattered nation of the population, of the method of manufacturing, and of assets. It has agglomerated production, and has focused assets in a few arms. The vital effect of this become political centralisation. (Location 97)
In these crises there breaks out a pandemic that, in all in advance epochs, would have appeared an absurdity—the epidemic of over-manufacturing. (Location 118)
the value of production of a workman is restrained, nearly completely, to the way of subsistence that he requires for his preservation, and for the propagation of his race. But the charge of a commodity, and therefore additionally of labour, is identical to its cost of manufacturing. (Location 138)
Modern industry has transformed the little workshop of the patriarchal master into the exceptional factory of the industrial capitalist. Masses of labourers, crowded into the manufacturing facility, are organised like squaddies. As privates of the economic military they are placed below the command of a perfect hierarchy of officials and sergeants. Not best are they slaves of the bourgeois magnificence, and of the bourgeois State; they're daily and hourly enslaved by the device, via the over-looker, and, chiefly, through the individual bourgeois producer himself. The extra brazenly this despotism pronounces advantage to be its end and intention, the extra petty, the greater hateful and the more embittering it is. (Location 144)
Differences of age and intercourse have now not any one-of-a-kind social validity for the running class. All are units of labour, extra or much less steeply-priced to apply, in keeping with their age and sex. (Location 151)
The proletariat goes via various levels of improvement. With its start starts offevolved its struggle with the bourgeoisie. At first the competition is carried on via person labourers, then by using the workpeople of a manufacturing facility, then by using the operatives of one exchange, (Location 160)
The various interests and conditions of lifestyles within the ranks of the proletariat are increasingly equalised, in share as machinery obliterates all distinctions of labour, and almost everywhere reduces wages to the identical low stage. The developing competition most of the bourgeois, and the resulting industrial crises, make the wages of the people ever greater fluctuating. (Location 173)
the class that holds the destiny in its palms. (Location 201)
The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, impartial movement of the sizeable majority, in the hobbies of the significant majority. The proletariat, the lowest stratum of our present society, can not stir, can't improve itself up, with out the whole superincumbent strata of legit society being sprung into the air. (Location 223)
The vital circumstance for the lifestyles, and for the sway of the bourgeois magnificence, is the formation and augmentation of capital; the circumstance for capital is wage-labour. Wage-labour rests solely on competition between the workers. (Location 241)