An idea from Das Kapital, Volume I

The forecast was that capital gathers into fewer hands while workers grow more organised, until “The expropriators are expropriated.” It didn’t happen that way. Revolutions came first in mostly farming countries such as Russia, while the industrial democracies reformed capitalism through unions, votes, and welfare.

From Das Kapital, Volume I by Karl Marx

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