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and believed that the productive forces--
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now remember he's writing in 1847,1848--
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that the productive forces associated with capitalism
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were unprecedented in world history.
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May I call on one of your classmates
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to read the pivotal paragraph from that work?
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"The bourgeoisie cannot exist without
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constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production,
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and thereby the relations of production,
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and with them the whole relations of society.
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Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form
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was, on the contrary,