Chapter II
'The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.' Defends communism against accusations of attacking eternal truths by showing all morality, religion, and law to be class-historical.
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From The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Marx and Engels argue that the ruling ideas of every epoch have been the ideas of its ruling class, anticipating the materialist critique of ideology developed elsewhere.
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