“Just as, to the bourgeois, the disappearance of class property is the disappearance of production itself, so the disappearance of class culture is to him identical with the disappearance of all culture. That culture, the loss of which he laments, is, for the enormous majority, a mere training to act as a machine.”

—  Karl Marx

Section 2, paragraph 34-35
The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)

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