Under the original Marxism, inspired by the bearded bum himself, socialist revolution would happen when the working class rose up and overthrew the bourgeoisie. Because Marx has also foreseen that history repeats itself first as tragedy and then as a farce, under our modern Marxism for the twenty-first century, it’s the bourgeoisie that’s the revolutionary class, trying to overthrow the oppressive shackles of the working class.
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