What effect do the authors imply will result from modern
class struggles?
Many different classes will begin to cooperate.
Conflict and revolution will restructure society.
Governments will support reforms.
The bourgeoisie will encourage improved working
conditions.
The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history
of class struggles.
Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf,
guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and
oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another,
carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight,
a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re-
constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of
the contending classes
The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the
ruins of feudal society has not done away with class
antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new
conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place
of the old ones. ... Society as a whole is more and more
splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great
classes, directly facing each other: Bourgeoisie and
Proletariat
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