“We are obviously heading for revolution—something I have nev…”

“We are obviously heading for revolution—something I have never once doubted since 1850. The first act will include a by no means gratifying rehash of the stupidities of '48-'49. However, that's how world history runs its course, and one has to take it as one finds it.”

— Karl Marx

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Title: Wikiquote: Karl Marx
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Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (28 December 1862), quoted in The Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Volume 41. Letters 1860–64 (2010), p. 437

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Marx, Karl. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Karl Marx. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karl_Marx

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