Abridged by H . Gene Blocker Library of Liberal Arts
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In Germany, . . . where practical life is as mindless as mental life is impractical, no class in civil society has any need or capacity for general emancipation until it is forced to it by its immediate condition, by material necessity, by its very chains. Where, then, is the positive possibility of German emancipation? Answer: In the formation of a class with radical chains, a class in civil society that is not of civil society, a class that is the dissolution of all classes, a sphere of society having a universal character because of its universal suffering and claiming no particular right because no particular wrong but unqualified wrong is perpetrated on it; a sphere that can invoke no traditional title but only a human title, which does not partially oppose the consequences but totally opposes the premises of the German political system; a sphere, finally, that cannot emancipate itself without emancipating itself from all the other spheres of society, thereby emancipating them; a sphere, in short, that is the complete loss of humanity and can only redeem itself through the total redemption of humanity. This dissolution of society is a particular class is the proletariat. The proletariat is only beginning to appear in Germany as a result of the rising industrial movement. For it is not poverty from natural circumstances but artificially produced poverty, not the human masses mechanically oppressed by the weight of society but the masses resulting from the acute SELECTIONS
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