QuoteQuest“Instead of deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to misrepresent the people in Parliament, universal suffrage was to serve the people, constituted in Communes, as individual suffrage serves every other employer in the search for the workmen and managers in his business.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Karl Marx
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
The Civil War in France : "The Third Address" (May 1871)
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Marx, Karl. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Karl Marx. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
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