From the Introduction to Marx’s
Wage Labour and Capital
... A new social order is possible in which the present class differences will have disappeared and in whichperhaps after a short transitional period involving some privation, but at any rate of great value morally-through the planned utilisation and extension of the already existing enormous productive forces of all members of society, and with uniform obligation to work, the means for existence, for enjoying life, for the development and employment of all bodily and mental faculties will be available in an equal measure and in ever-increasing fulness. And that the workers are becoming more and more determined to win this new social order will be demonstrated on both sides of the ocean by May the First, tomorrow, and by Sunday, May3,
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