micchiato 🍉 on Nostr: “the bourgeoisie has not only forged the weapons that deal death to it; it is also ...
“the bourgeoisie has not only forged the weapons that deal death to it; it is also brought into existence [those] who will wield these weapons – the modern workers, the proletarians.
In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, develops, so also does the proletariat, the class of modern workers, who live only so long as they find work and who find work only so long as their labor augments capital. These workers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity like every other article of commerce, and our consequently, equally exposed to all vicissitudes of competition and to all fluctuations of the market.”
— Manifesto of the Communist Party, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, 1848 (1994 English translation)
In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, develops, so also does the proletariat, the class of modern workers, who live only so long as they find work and who find work only so long as their labor augments capital. These workers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity like every other article of commerce, and our consequently, equally exposed to all vicissitudes of competition and to all fluctuations of the market.”
— Manifesto of the Communist Party, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, 1848 (1994 English translation)