Modern bourgeois society is like a sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers he has called up by his spells
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Modern bourgeois society is like a sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers he has called up by his spells 1 0 2and
Commercial crises put the existence of the entire bourgeois society on trial 1 0 2and
In these crises, a great part not only of existing products but also previously created productive forces are periodically destroyed 1 0 2and
These crises result in overproduction, leading to a state of momentary barbarism where industry and commerce seem to be destroyed because there is too much civilization, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce 1 0 2Then it must be true that...
The bourgeoisie gets over these crises by enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces and by the conquest of new markets and more thorough exploitation of old ones 1 0 2Mentions
Karl Marx/The Communist Manifesto
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