“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
This quote has no known author and is recorded as an anonymous proverb.
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Marx opens the pamphlet in the voice of a catechism, as if the whole of recorded history were one long question and answer about who owns what. The satire lies in the form, which makes an argument about ownership sound like an examination.
Source: The Communist Manifesto