He stars from the ancient Rome where we have patricians, knights, plebeians and slaves; then in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs and we came in our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses which it has simplified the 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 Proletarian. ... Its fall and the victory of the proletarian are equally inevitable. ...

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He stars from the ancient Rome where we have patricians, knights, plebeians and slaves; then in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs and we came in our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses which it has simplified the 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 Proletarian. ... Its fall and the victory of the proletarian are equally inevitable....

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In this extract Marx and Engels state that throughout history we see arrangements of social rank giving the example that "in ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs, in almost all these classes, subordinate gradations". ... Marx and Engels state that of all the classes the proletariat are the only true revolutionary class, all other classes fall into decay, the workers will form groups of trade unions to fight against the bourgeoisie. ...

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