"The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations."

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Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up with the crude English method of development, of course. Despite all deficiencies not only is the death-blow dealt here for the first time to 'teleology' in the natural sciences, but their rational meaning is empirically explained.

— Karl Marx