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Friedrich Engels1820–1895

The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.Workers of all countries…unite!

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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto (1848), Section 4, paragraph 11 (last paragraph)

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