Marxism: Essential Writings, "The State and Revolution"
The State and Revolution (1917)
“The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the transition from a peaceable to a consistently warlike habit of life.”
Source: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 5
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