Friedrich Engels:

The development of modern industry has cut from under its feet the very ground on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.

— Friedrich Engels Modern

Communist Manifesto co-author

Context

The Communist Manifesto (co-authored with Karl Marx)

Date / Period

1848

Source

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm

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