“Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great…”

“Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be measured precisely by the social position of the fair sex (plain ones included).”

— Karl Marx

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Title: Wikiquote: Karl Marx
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Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann, dated 12 December 1868.

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

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