Re: [Marxism] Is "class" at the root of the real division in society?

[Midhurst14@xxxxxxx]

The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has  put an end to all 
feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn  asunder the 
motley feudal ties that bound man to his ânatural superiors,â and  has left 
remaining no other nexus between man and than naked self-interest, than  
callous â
cash payment.â It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious  
fervour, of chival­rous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the 
icy  
water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange  
value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered  free­doms 
It has set up that single, unconscionable freedom-Free  Trade. In one word, 
for exploitation, veiled by religious and political  illu­sions it has 
substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.   
The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation  hitherto 
ho­noured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted  physician, 
the 
lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, as paid  wage-labourers. 
The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its  sentimental veil and has 
reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.   
Communist Manifesto 
First published in German in January 1848. Just a few  weeks before the 
French revolution of February 24th. The first English  translation appeared in 
the â
Red Republicanâ in 1850 
George  Anthony
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