"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains."
Communist Manifesto quotes
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"Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks."
"In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases."
"If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist."
"The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe."
"Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution."
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."
"Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones."