...guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed stood in constant opposition to each other, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open...fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large or in the mutual ruin of the contending classes. (Cited in The Militant,...

...first major section of The Communist Manifesto: The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician...fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.... The modern...