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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. — Karl Marx

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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

In the original German

Die herrschenden Ideen einer Zeit waren stets nur die Ideen der herrschenden Klasse.

Karl Marx
The Communist Manifesto · 1848
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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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