"The Communist Manifesto"

[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.