The Great Depression
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Karl Marx and the Communist Manifesto
Source: Modified excerpt from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels, 1848 Vocab bourgeois: middle class – referring to the factory owners antagonisms: hatred between groups of people patriarchal: male pitilessly torn asunder: turn apart without caring, broken apart without mercy masses: large groups proletariat: Marx and Engel’s word for the working class limb: arm monotonous: boring knack: skill ---------------------- The modern bourgeois society...has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new forms of struggle in place of the old ones. Modern industry has converted the little workshop of the patriarchalmaster into the great factory of the industrial capitalist. ... They have pitilessly torn asunder the ties that bound men to each other, and have left nothing other than naked self- interest... Masses of laborers, crowded into the factory, are organized like soldiers.... They are slav...
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