The capitalist mode of appropriation, the result of the capitalist mode of production, produces capitalist private property. This is the first negation of individual private property, as founded on the labour of the proprietor. But capitalist production begets, with the inexorability of a law of Nature, its own negation. It is the negation of negation.
— Friedrich Engels Modern

Communist Manifesto co-author

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Anti-Dühring

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1878

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Humorous

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https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/ch01.htm

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