...which alone can be explained, the political and intellectual history of that epoch, and consequently the whole history of mankind has been a history of class struggles, contests between the exploiting and exploited." Patriotism often spells self-interest. From Romulus...

...its nucleus belongs to Marx." That proposition embraced the materialistic theory of social evolution, that " the whole history of mankind has been a history of class struggles ... in which nowadays a stage has been reached where the exploited and oppressed classes—the proletariat—cannot...

...epoch is determined by the prevailing mode of economic production and exchange, and that consequently the whole history of mankind has been a history of class struggles. She does not develop the first part of the formula, but devotes herself to the second, emphasizing...

...which alone can be explained, the political and intellectual history of that epoch; that consequently the whole history of mankind has been a history of class struggles, contests between exploiting and exploited, ruling and oppressed classes; that nowadays a stage has...

...basis of society. He defines "historical materialism" as "that view of the course of history 8. Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire, translated by DeLeon, p....as changes in the economic and political institu6. Engels, Socialism, Utopian and Scientific, Kerr edition, p. 23. 7. Ibid., pp. 94, 95. tions of society...

...proposition, they had no difficulty in accepting the corollary, which Engels stated as follows : "Consequently the whole history of mankind . . . has been a history of class struggles, contests between exploiting and exploited, ruling and oppressed classes." The Communist Manifesto itself...

...can be explained, the political and intellectual history of that epoch. According to this conception, the whole history of mankind has been a history of class struggles, between the ruling and oppressed classes, and a stage has now been reached where the exploited —...

...intellectual history of that epoch." From this Marx further concluded, according to Engels, that "consequently the whole history of mankind. .. has been a history of class struggles, contests between exploiting and exploited, ruling and oppressed classes." Having thus satisfied himself...

...which alone can be explained, the political and intellectual history of that epoch; that consequently the whole history of mankind . . . has been a history of class struggles, contest between exploiting and exploited, ruling and oppressed classes; that the history of these class...

...following from it, form the basis [of] the political and intellectual history of that epoch. . . . [T]he whole history of mankind . . . has been a history of class struggles, contests between exploiting and exploited, ruling and oppressed classes. . . . Nowadays, a stage has...