History Re-Read

Extract from Chapter 1 of the Communist Manifesto


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The long history of class struggle is explained in beautiful English, full of Latinate syntax. Marx and Engels then go on in the same rhetorical vein, evocative of Cicero, no less, to describe the way capital in relation to manufacturing has reduced artisanal skills to mere labour, to be bought and sold as any other commodity.

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History Re-ReadBy Philip Gill