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The aristocracy is a ruling class that has seen its power diminish and, in some countries, disappear entirely under the bourgeois capitalist system. Like the bourgeoisie, they hold great wealth and private property, typically passed down from generation to generation by inheritance. Marx and Engels believe that any attempt to by the aristocracy to limit the rise of the bourgeoisie is done in their own interests—not the proletariat’s.
Aristocracy Quotes in The Communist Manifesto
The The Communist Manifesto quotes below are all either spoken by Aristocracy or refer to Aristocracy. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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I. Bourgeois and Proletarians
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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, that each time ended, either in the revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.
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Aristocracy Quotes in The Communist Manifesto
The The Communist Manifesto quotes below are all either spoken by Aristocracy or refer to Aristocracy. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
I. Bourgeois and Proletarians
Quotes
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, that each time ended, either in the revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.
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