...Communist Manifesto : "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle. ... In the earlier epochs of history we find almost everywhere...various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. . . . The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done...

...one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society...the common ruin of the contending classes." In the latter event it would seem that the triumph of an oppressed class was frustrated. The Marxian, however,...

...one another, carried on an uninterrupted fight, now hidden, now open, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contesting classes." Out of the economic divisions of society arise classes of exploiters and exploited...

...another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, that each time ended, either in the revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes. . . . Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeois, possesses, however, this class distinctive feature: it...

...warfare, now secret, now open, which has in every case ended either in the revolutionary reconstruction of society at large or in the common ruin of the contending classes. . . . The modern society that has sprung from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class...

...one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society...of social rank. In ancient Rome we have patricians, plebeians, slaves; in the middle ages, feudal lords, knights, vassals, guild masters, journeymen, apprentices,...

...warfare, now secret, now open, which has in every case ended either in the revolutionary reconstruction of society at large or in the common ruin of the contending classes." The present epoch has, says Marx, simplified the class struggle. The development of the great-scale...

...one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society...large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes. . . . The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society, has not done...

...(Marx 1888), the basic policy doctrine of communism, reads like a discussion of dominance hierarchies.4 "In the earlier epochs of history we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of history into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank" (1). Also: "Modern industry has converted...

...one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society...ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs; in...