The Communist Manifesto

All previous historical movements were movements of minorities, or in the interests of minorities. The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority, in the interests of the immense majority.

The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.

have nothing to lose but their chains.

The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.

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WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!

The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.
They have a world to win.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution

The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims.
They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by
the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions

The Socialistic bourgeois want all the advantages of modern social conditions without the struggles and dangers necessarily resulting therefrom