Sections 1 In speaking of the bourgeoisie I include the so-called aristocracy, for this is a privileged… 2 Even the relation between himself and his wife is, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred,… 3 "A LADY." 4 In other respects, too, the bourgeoisie assumes a hypocritical, boundless philanthropy, but… 5 Whoever declines so to declare himself they pronounce their enemy, and are perfectly right… 6 But rightly to measure the hypocrisy of these promises, the practice of the bourgeoisie must… 7 Down to the present hour, the property-holding class in Parliament still struggles against… 8 Meanwhile the most open declaration of war of the bourgeoisie upon the proletariat is… 9 Since, however, the rich hold all the power, the proletarians must submit, if they will not… 10 But these wise Malthusians were so thoroughly convinced of the infallibility of their theory… 11 They accordingly brought in the New Poor Law, which was passed by Parliament in 1834, and… 12 "In the workhouse at Greenwich, in the summer of 1843, a boy five years old was punished by… 13 In November, 1843, a man died at Leicester, who had been dismissed two days before from the… 14 One patient was found dead, bound in this way. 15 As in life, so in death. 16 I hope that after this picture of the New Poor Law and its results, no word which I have… 17 Such is the state of the British working-class as I have come to know it in the course of… 18 But assuming that England retained the monopoly of manufactures, that its factories… 19 Communism stands, in principle, above the breach between bourgeoisie and proletariat,…
Start Learning The closing indictment: the English middle class as a class — its political economy, its charity that buys off conscience, its Malthusian Poor Law and the workhouse 'Bastilles' — and Engels's prediction that the war of the poor against the rich must become open and universal. The 1892 preface answers this chapter directly.
The bourgeoisie as a class, not as individuals Charity and hypocrisy Malthus and the New Poor Law The workhouse system The prophecy of revolution
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