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10.2- The Adventures of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Revolutions

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A Brief History of Mark and Angles

Two young men, both still in their mid twenties, got along famously. They agreed with each other that they had discovered the revolutionary proletariat. Marks was a man who dreamed of revolution. And he hit upon this idea that the new industrial working class might just be miserable enough to be the engine of the next revo tion. The potato blight and harvest failures were going to send recessive shock waves reverberating through every sector of the european economy. So the going was hard for the marks family. About six months after arriving in brussels, marks renounced his citizenship.

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