...movement. " The lower strata of the middle class," contended Marx and Engels, " the small tradesmen, shopkeepers, and retired tradesmen generally, the...which modern industry is carried on, and is swamped in the competition with the large capitalists, partly because their specialized skill is rendered worthless...

...set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc. The lower strata of the middle class — the small...which Modern Industry is carried on, and is swamped in the competition with the large capitalists, partly because their specialized skill is rendered worthless...

...eliminated, and the day of revolution draws near. In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels say: "The lower strata of the middle class — the small...and peasants — all these sink gradually into the proletariat."1 Unquestionably, the removal of the middle class would greatly simplify the social problem,...

...set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc. The lower strata of the middle class — the small...which modern industry is carried on, and is swamped in the competition with the large capitalists, [and] partly because their specialized skill is rendered...

...set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc. The lower strata of the middle class — the small...and retired tradesmen generally, the handicraftsmen arid peasants — all these sink gradually into the proletariat, partly because their diminutive capital...

...set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc. The lower strata of the middle class — the small...which modern industry is carried on, and is swamped in the competition with the large capitalists, [and] partly because their specialized skill is rendered...

...essence of Marx's theory of a catastrophic advent of socialism. In the words of Marx it runs as follows : The small tradespeople, shopkeepers, and retired tradesmen...— all these sink gradually into the proletariat. . . . Entire sections of the ruling classes are by the advance of industry precipitated into proletariat....

...upon by the other iportions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc. The lower strata of the Middle class — the small...which Modern Industry is carried on, and is swamped in the competition with the large capitalists, partly because their specialized skill is rendered worthless...

...set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc. The lower strata of the middle class — the small...which Modern Industry is carried on, and is swamped in the competition with the large capitalists, partly because their specialized skill is rendered worthless...

...set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc. The lower strata of the middle class — the small...which Modern Industry is carried on, and is swamped in the competition with the large capitalists, partly because their specialized skill is rendered worthless...