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--the bourgeoisie, he said, is a new class,
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and probably, arguably, the first real class.
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The landlords were not a class
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because they were not constituted in economic terms.
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They were constituted legally--right?- and by customs,
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rather than simply on market exchange and market competition.
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And he also said, "Well, this bourgeoisie
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was an extremely revolutionary force." Right?
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"And it actually transformed the whole society."
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And here I think there is--even in The Communist Manifesto
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he contradicts himself.
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He said, "Well, you know, what it did,