Friedrich Engels:

The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible.

— 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/ch02.htm

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