Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Freeman and slave patrician and plebeian lord and serf guild-master and journeyman in a word oppressor and oppressed stood in constant opposition to one another carried on an uninterrupted now hidden now open fight a fight that each time ended either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large or in the common ruin of the contending classes. In the earlier epochs of history we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders a manifold gradation of social rank. In ancient Rome we have patricians knights plebeians slaves; in the Middle Ages feudal lords vassals guild-masters journeymen apprentices serfs; in almost all of these classes again subordinate gradations. The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes new conditions of oppression new forms of struggle in place of the old ones. Our moch the epoch of the bourgeoisie possesses however this distinctive feature. (LL)