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This foundation of the class struggle, which Marx – and this is his…
Quote byWilhelm Liebknecht · 1826–1900
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899).
English (original)
This foundation of the class struggle, which Marx – and this is his immortal service – has given to the modern labor movement, is the main point of attack in the battle which the bourgeois political economy is waging with socialism.
— Wilhelm Liebknecht
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