The only difference as compared with the old, outspoken slavery is this, that the worker of today seems to be free because he is not sold once for all, but piece meal by the day, the week, the year, and because no one owner sells him to another, but he is forced to sell himself in this way instead, being the slave of no particular person, but of the whole property-holding class.

— Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844

#capitalism #quote #WageSlavery #slavery #FriedrichEngels #Engels

Linke und Utopien: Das Paradies als Wissenschaft

Marx und Engels haben utopisches Denken immer kritisch gesehen. Wie wollten sie die Gesellschaft verändern?#KarlMarx #Paradies #Gesellschaftskritik #FriedrichEngels #DieLinke #Utopie #Alltag #Gesellschaft #Schwerpunkt
Linke und Utopien: Das Paradies als Wissenschaft

The Manifesto

Marx & Engels

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/guide.htm

‘I. #Communism is already acknowledged by all #European #powers to be itself a power.

II. It is high time that #Communists should openly, in the face of the #whole #world, #publish their #views, their #aims, their #tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a #manifesto of the #party itself.

To this end, Communists of various nationalities have assembled in London and sketched the following manifesto, to be published in the #English, #French, #German, #Italian, #Flemish and #Danish languages.’

#TheManifestoOfTheCommunistParty #karlmarx #marx #friedrichengels #engels