The C
ist M
nifesto
The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history
of class struggles.
Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf,
guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and
oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another,
carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight,
a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re-
constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of
the contending classes....
The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the
ruins of feudal society has not done away with class
antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new
conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place
of the old ones.... Society as a whole is more and more
splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great
classes, directly facing each other: Bourgeoisie and
Proletariat.
In this passage, the authors imply that the proletariat
have the same role in society as which other classes in
history? Check all that apply.
Ofreemen
slaves
plebians
lords
serfs