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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
The Communist Manifesto · 1848
Declaration of Independence
1776
Constitution of the United States
1787
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
The Communist Manifesto · 1848
Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
Notes on the State of Virginia · 1785
America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without.
Democratic Vistas · 1871
Bill of Rights · 1789
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte · 1852
No man chooses evil, because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
A Vindication of the Rights of Men · 1790
A state without some means of change is without the means of its own conservation.
Reflections on the Revolution in France · 1790