![]() ![]() “Workers of the World, Unite! You have nothing to.All over the world we see an increase of workers’ struggles, of strikes, walkouts but also of refusal to work under unbearable conditions in the so-called Great Resignation. You can read some humorous take-offs on the “Workers of the world” quote in the post on my Quote/Counterquote blog at this link.Ĭomments? Corrections? Questions? Email me or post them on my Famous Quotations Facebook page. Especially workers in logistics, health, education and the retail sector, those in transportation and other essential services have gained new confidence. In a letter he wrote on Aug, Engels remarked: “Just as Marx used to say, commenting on the French ‘Marxists’ of the late 70s: ‘All I know is that I am not a Marxist.’” ![]() “Workers of the World, Unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!”Īs it turned out, other people’s visions of “Communistic revolution” and Marxism weren’t exactly what Marx and Engels had in mind. The shortened, more familiar - and often parodied - mistranslation of the last few sentences is: The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. “Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The official English translation of the last four sentences, as approved by Engels, are: The other famous words in The Communist Manifesto are its closing lines, at the end of Chapter IV. Paul calls us synergoi Theou, God’s co-workers (1 Cor. “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” John Paul II, the Pope who emerged from within the Communist world, in his powerful encyclical, Laborem Exercens, argues that human labor is not in itself a punishment for sin, but rather our participation in God’s creating, governing and redeeming labor. “A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism.” One is the opening sentence of the Preamble : Most of the affiliates are trade unions, and. As of May 2014, we have 48 affiliated organisations from 39 countries, representing some 280,000 dues-paying members. It was established as a global federation at its Founding Congress in Montevideo, Uruguay, 26-28 October 2013. ![]() Several famous quotations from The Communist Manifesto are included in many books of quotations and still frequently cited today. The IDWF grew out of the International Domestic Workers Network (IDWN). Over the next few years it was translated into many other languages, including English. ![]()
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