...and essential product. . . . The lower middle-classes, the small manufacturers, the shop keep•f-.i. the artisan, the peasant, all these fight against the bourgeoisie, to save from oKttnction their existence as fractions of the middle-class . . . they are reactionary, for they try...

...by elimination, the proletariat. "The lower middle class, the small manufacturer, the shop keeper, the artisan, the peasant, all these fight against...reactionary for they try to roll back the wheel of history." Again in reference to the farmers in "Capital" Vol. I, page 815, Kerr Edition, in the chapter "Genesis...

...face of modern industry; the proletariat is its special and essential product. The lower middle class, the small manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artisan,...reactionary, for they try to roll back the wheel of history. . . . The " dangerous class," the social scum, that passively rotting class thrown off by the lowest...

...face of modern industry; the proletariat is its special and essential product. The lower middle-class, the small manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artisan,...class. They are, therefore, not revolutionary, but conserTative. Nay more, they are reactionary, for they try to roll back the wheel of history. If by...

...existence as fractions of the middle class. They are, therefore, not revolutionary, but conserTative. Nay more, they are reactionary, for they try to roll back the wheel of historv. If bv chance thev are revolutionarv, thev are so only in view of their impending transfer...

...face of modern industry; the proletariat is its special and essential product. The lower middle-class, the small manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artisan,...from extinction their existence as fractions of the middle-class. They are, therefore, not revolutionary, but conservative. Nay more, they are reactionary,...

...face of modern industry; the proletariat is a special and essential product. The lower middle class, the small manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artisan,...impending transfer into the proletariat; they thus desert not their present, but their future interests; they desert their own standpoint to place themselves...

...who revolts against a threat to his existence and his interests, is not "really" revolutionary. . . . .They are therefore not revolutionary, but conservative....they try to roll back the wheel of history. If by •Ibid., pp. 34, 35. • Ibid., p. 34. [Note by Engels to the English edition of 1888.] 'Ibid., p....

...thinking, and should be thoroughly understood. Marx himself elaborates as follows : The lower middle class, the small manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artisan,...peasant, all these fight against the bourgeoisie. . . .8 In other words, classes other than the proletariat also are revolutionary. But their revolutionary...

...special and essential product. ... The lower middle-classes, the small manufacturers, the shopkeepers, the artisan, the peasant, all these fight against...from extinction their existence as fractions of the middle-class ... they are reactionary, for they try to roll back the wheel of history. 'Karl Marx and...