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All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
... (more Friedrich Engels quotes)
| Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 1851-53, Vol. 11: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany, the 18th Brumaire, Etc. by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels | |
| Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 1845-47, Vol. 5: Theses on Feuerbach, The German Ideology and Related Manuscripts by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels | |
| Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by Friedrich Engels (Heritage of Sociology Series) by Karl Marx and Neil Smelser |