Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list – the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.
Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital
From 'The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte', a cynical categorization of societal roles.
1852
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"The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!"
Controversial"A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties."
Controversial"The modern ancien régime is rather only the comedian of a world order whose true heroes are dead."
Humorous"The proletariat, the lowest stratum of our present society, cannot stir, cannot raise itself up, without the whole superincumbent strata of official society being sprung into the air."
Shocking"Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole."
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