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Starry Messenger

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11. If I have to suffer, you all have to suffer with me.

Thu Mar 1, 2012, 02:31 AM

Mar 2012

I get furious too. Reading the Manifesto usually puts me back in a better frame of mind. Knowing that all of this isn't random, or 'nature' or destined to hang around forever is calming.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm

Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinct feature: it has simplified class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other — Bourgeoisie and Proletariat.

In a perverse way, I suppose we are lucky that there are examples all around us these days, to point up that the class war is still very much alive. It seems to be getting much more simplified too.

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Seriously, quit posting these lol. white_wolf Mar 2012 #10

If I have to suffer, you all have to suffer with me. Starry Messenger Mar 2012 #11

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