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THE CLASS STRUGGLE
remains in a sense the most authoritative exposition of the principles underlying that movement.
The following translation is based on the eighth German edition (1907). It is as exact a rendering in English as could be compressed into two-thirds of the space occupied by the original. The passages omitted consist chiefly of illustrative material. The author's argument, his statement of principles, has nowhere been tampered with.
W. E. B.
