By Bourgeoisie Is Meant The Class Of

I Have Learned More [from Balzac] Than From All The Professional Historians, Economists, And Statisticians Put Together.

People Think They Have Taken Quite An Extraordinarily Bold Step Forward When They Have Rid Themselves Of Belief In Hereditary Monarchy And Swear By The Democratic Republic. In Reality, However, The State Is Nothing But A Machine For The Oppression Of One Class By Another, And Indeed In The Democratic Republic No Less Than In The Monarchy.

Look At The Paris Commune. That Was The Dictatorship Of The Proletariat.

Thus At Every Step We Are Reminded That We By No Means Rule Over Nature Like A Conqueror Over A Foreign People, Like Someone Standing Outside Nature - But That We, With Flesh, Blood And Brain, Belong To Nature, And Exist In Its Midst, And That All Our Mastery Of It Consists In The Fact That We Have The Advantage Over All Other Creatures Of Being Able To Learn Its Laws And Apply Them Correctly.

All History Has Been A History Of Class Struggles, Of Struggles Between Exploited And Exploiting, Between Dominated And Dominating Classes At Various Stages Of Social Development.