fiefoe

I'm only at location 70. Marx & Engels are certainly very quotable. Globalization started so long ago!

The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.
The feudal system of industry, under which industrial production was monopolised by closed guilds, now no longer sufficed for the growing wants of the new markets.
Modern industry has established the world-market, for which the discovery of America paved the way.
The executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.
The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic
... has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment."
in place of the numberless and feasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom--Free Trade.
The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.
All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life...
In place of the old local and national seclusion and self-sufficiency, we have intercourse in every direction, universal inter-dependence of nations.
The cheap prices of its commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls,
.. has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life.

"The Communist Manifesto"