The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. — Karl Marx

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

In the original German

Die Geschichte aller bisherigen Gesellschaft ist die Geschichte von Klassenkämpfen.

The Communist Manifesto · 1848
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Current citation
Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto, translated by Samuel Moore and Friedrich Engels. Penguin Classics, 2002.
Original citation
Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels [published anonymously]. Manifest der kommunistischen Partei [Manifesto of the Communist Party]. London: Gedruckt in der Office der Bildungs-Gesellschaft für Arbeiter, 1848.

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