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promoting it. They became so many fetters. . . ." [p.37]
[34] In the German edition of 1848, the words "development of the conditions of bourgeois property" read
"development of bourgeois civilisation and the conditions of bourgeois property." But in the German editions of
1872, 1883 and 1890, the words "bourgeois civilisation and" were omitted. [p.38]
[35] In their works written in later periods, Marx and Engels substituted the more accurate concepts of "value of
labour power" and "price of labour power" (first introduced by Marx) for "value of labour" and "price of labour."
[p.39]
[36] In the first German edition of February 1848, the words "superseded by that of women" read "superseded by
that of women and children." [p.40]
[37] In the German original, this sentence reads: "They direct their attacks not only against the bourgeois
conditions of production, but. . . ." [p.41]
[38] The words "(Trades' Unions)" are not in the German original. [p.42]
[39] In the German original, the words "elements of political and general education" read "elements of education."
[p.43]
[40] In the German original, the words "fresh elements of enlightenment and progress" read "mass educational
elements." [p.43]
[41] In the German original, "The 'dangerous class,' the social scum," read "The lumpen proletariat." [p.44]
[42] The word "self-conscious" is not in the German original. [p.45]
[43] In the German original this sentence reads: "The essential condition for the existence, and for the sway of the
bourgeois class, is the accumulation of wealth in the hands of private individuals, the formation and augmentation
of capital. . . ." [p.46]
[44] In the German original, the word "sectarian" reads "special." [p.47]
[45] In the German original, the words "the exploitation of the many by the few" read "the exploitation of the ones
by the others." [p.48]
[46] The words "into capital," are not in the German original. [p.51]
[47] In the German original, the words "the leading class of the nation" read "the national class." [p.55]
[48] In the German edition of 1848, the word "knowledge" reads "conscience." In the German editions of 1872,
1883 and 1890, the word "knowledge" was used as in the English translation. [p.56]
[49] The words "necessitate further inroads upon the old social order," are not in the German original. [p.57]
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[50] In the German edition of 1848, the word "distinction" reads "antithesis." In the German editions of 1872, 1883
and 1890, the word "distinction" was used as in the English translation. [p.58]
[51] The words "by a more equable distribution of the population over the country" are not in the German original.
[p.58]