Chapter I
What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.Read in Books4Free →
The Proletariat and Its Historical Mission
From The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The bourgeoisie produces its own gravediggers -- the proletariat, a class with nothing to lose, whose collective organization and immiseration position it as the universal revolutionary class.
Chapter I
Describes the proletarian as a 'commodity, like every other article of commerce' -- defines wage labor as alienated and exploited.
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'The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains' anticipates the closing call; proletariat is described as having no property, no family interests, no nation in the bourgeois sense.
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