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[Rotunno Devery]

 revolutionary, but conservative. Nay more, they are reactionary, for
they try to roll back the wheel of history. If by chance they are
revolutionary, they are so only in view of their impending transfer into
the proletariat, they thus defend not their present, but their future
interests, they desert their own standpoint to place themselves at that
of the proletariat. The "dangerous class," the social scum, that
passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of old society,
may, here and there, be swept into the movement by a proletarian
revolution; its conditions of life, however, prepare it far more for the
part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue. In the conditions of the
proletariat, those of old society at large are already virtually
swamped. The proletarian is without property; his relation to his wife
and children has no longer anything in common with the bourgeois
family-relations; modern industrial labour, modern subjection to
capital, the same in England as in France, in America as in Germany, has
stripped him of every trace of national character. Law, morality,
religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in
ambush just as many bourgeois interests. All the preceding classes that
got the upper hand, sought to fortify their already acquired status by
subjecting society at large to their conditions of appropriation. The
proletarians cannot become masters of the productive forces of society,
except by abolishing their own previous mode of appropriation, and
thereby also every other previous mode of appropriation. They have
nothing of their own to secure and to fortify; their mission is to
destroy all previous securities for, and insurances of, individual
property. All previous historical movements were movements of
minorities, or in the intere
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