Marx on the Fall of the Bourgeoisie & Victory of the Proletariat

An excerpt from Manifesto of the Communist Party
by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels February 1848

"Finally, in times when the class struggle nears the decisive hour, the progress of dissolution going on within the ruling class, in fact within the whole range of old society, assumes such a violent, glaring character, that a small section of the ruling class cuts itself adrift, and joins the revolutionary class, the class that holds the future in its hands. Just as, therefore, at an earlier period, a section of the nobility went over to the bourgeoisie, so now a portion of the bourgeoisie
goes over to the proletariat, and in particular, a portion of the bourgeois ideologists, who have raised themselves to the level of comprehending theoretically the historical movement as a whole..."

Read the entire book here

[storiesforbedtime]

I didn't know Derrick Zoolander was in to Karl Marx

[spfccsmft]

The video cuts off about one second early.

[taylortate]

Marx is hard af fuck to read but Kiss The Sky translates some of dude's work into urban dialects and memes. u can look at it

[waldoish]

This reads like it's supposed to be science, rather than the wishful thinking that it is.

[roland]

Possibly the worst person in Human history.