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Quotation from Capital, Volume I by Karl Marx
“Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.”
Capital, Volume I, Chapter XXXI: Genesis of the industrial capitalist, trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (1887), ed. Frederick Engels; rev. Ernest Untermann (Kerr, 1906)
From Chapter XXXI on the genesis of the industrial capitalist, after describing the role of state power, colonial plunder and public debt in the rise of capitalism.
Citation: "Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one." — Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter XXXI: Genesis of the industrial capitalist, trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (1887), ed. Frederick Engels; rev. Ernest Untermann (Kerr, 1906). (id marx-capital-volume-i-q6)
