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The history of all hitherto
existing society is the history of class struggles: freeman and
slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and
journeyman - in a word, oppressor and oppressed - stood in constant
opposition to one another, carried on an uninterupted, now hidden,
now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary
reconstitution of society at large or in the common ruin of the
contending classes. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto |
