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The proletariat goes through various stages of development. With

its birth begins its struggle with the bourgeoisie. At first the

contest is carried on by individual labourers, then by the

workpeople of a factory, then by the operatives of one trade, in

one locality, against the individual bourgeois who directly

exploits them. They direct their attacks not against the

bourgeois conditions of production, but against the instruments

of production themselves; they destroy imported wares that

compete with their labour, they smash to pieces machinery, they

set factories ablaze, they seek to restore by force the vanished

status of the workman of the Middle Ages.