“Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones.”

— Karl Marx

Section 1, paragraph 18, lines 6-9.
The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)

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