“What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.”

—  Karl Marx

Section 1, paragraph 53, lines 11-13.
The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)

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