The working classes have always, according to the different stages of development of society, lived in different circumstances and had different relations to the owning and ruling classes.
In antiquity, the workers were the slaves of the owners, just as they still are in many backward countries and even in the southern part of the United States.
In the Middle Ages, they were the serfs of the land-owning nobility, as they still are in Hungary, Poland, and Russia. In the Middle Ages, and indeed right up to the industrial revolution, there were also journeymen in the cities who worked in the service of petty bourgeois masters. Gradually, as manufacture developed, these journeymen became manufacturing workers who were even then employed by larger capitalists.
ESTÁS LEYENDO
The Principles of Communism
No FicciónWant to get into communism, but can't understand the endless jargon and concepts? No worries, Engels has you covered with this simple Q&A-style piece of communist theory answering all your basic questions. Written in 1847 and translated by Paul Swee...
