With the development of industry, the proletariat not only increases in number but also becomes concentrated in greater masses and feels its strength more

Negation: With the development of industry, the proletariat either decrease in number, disperses in smaller masses, or fails to feel its strength more 0 0 0

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The organization of proletarians into a class is continually upset by competition between the workers themselves 1 0 2

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Collisions between classes further the development of the proletariat 1 0 2

Then it must be true that...

With the development of industry, the proletariat not only increases in number but also becomes concentrated in greater masses and feels its strength more 1 0 2

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Argument #62f134e5 1 0 2

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With the development of industry, the proletariat not only increases in number but also becomes concentrated in greater masses and feels its strength more 1 0 2

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Machinery obliterates all distinctions of labour and reduces wages to the same low level 1 0 2

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The growing competition among the bourgeois and the resulting commercial crises make the wages of the workers fluctuating 1 0 2

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The increasing improvement of machinery makes the livelihood of workers precarious 1 0 2

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Collisions between individual workmen and individual bourgeois take on the character of collisions between two classes 1 0 2

Argument #c0477289 1 0 2

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With its birth, the proletariat begins its struggle with the bourgeoisie 1 0 2

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With the development of industry, the proletariat not only increases in number but also becomes concentrated in greater masses and feels its strength more 1 0 2

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Collisions between individual workmen and individual bourgeois take on the character of collisions between two classes 1 0 2

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Workers form combinations against the bourgeois to keep up the rate of wages 1 0 2

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Improved means of communication created by modern industry help in centralizing numerous local struggles into one national struggle between classes 1 0 2

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Karl Marx/The Communist Manifesto

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As industry, commerce, navigation, railways extended, so did the bourgeoisie develop and increase its capital 1 0 3 The bourgeoisie has called into existence the men who are to wield these weapons — the modern working class, the proletarians 1 0 2 As the bourgeoisie develops, so does the proletariat, a class of laborers who live only as long as they find work and who find work only as long as their labor increases capital 1 0 2 Due to the extensive use of machinery and division of labor, the work of proletarians has lost all individual character 1 0 2 The proletariat is recruited from all classes of the population 1 0 2 With its birth, the proletariat begins its struggle with the bourgeoisie 1 0 2 Collisions between classes further the development of the proletariat 1 0 2 Sections of the ruling class are precipitated into the proletariat or threatened in their conditions of existence by the advance of industry 1 0 2 The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest all capital from the bourgeoisie and centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the state 1 0 2 The first direct attempts of the proletariat to attain its own ends failed due to the undeveloped state of the proletariat and absence of economic conditions for its emancipation 1 0 2