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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles' "The Communist Manifesto"

Theory & Philosophy

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Exploitation and Unity

This chapter discusses the exploitation of the proletariat in capitalism, highlighting how laborers are paid minimum wage while maximum surplus labor is extracted from them. It also explores the phases of the proletarian's awareness and unity, as well as their misplaced anger towards the instruments of production or individual bourgeois, rather than recognizing the systemic nature of capitalism.

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