...we find almost everywhere a comprehensive division of society into different orders, a multifarious gradation of social rank. In ancient Rome we have...ages feudal lords, vassals, guildmasters, journeymen, serfs, and again in almost all of these classes further fine gradations. Modern bourgeois society,...

...a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large or in the common ruin of the contending classes. "In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost...into various orders, a manifold gradation of social ranks. . . . The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not...

...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...rank. In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices,...

..."The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles" and proceeds thus : "In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost...various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank.. The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society, has not done away...

...struggles."277 In all past ages we find a complicated division of society into ranks and classes. In Rome patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the middle...vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs. Modern society did not abolish class antagonisms; it only substituted new classes, new antagonisms,...

...consciousness of the oppressed classes. This was because of the complexity of those earlier class structures: In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere...arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradations of social rank. In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle...

...revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes. In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere...all of these classes, again, subordinate gradations. * By bourgeoisie is meant the elass of modern Capitalists, owners of the means of social production...

...history of all hitherto existing society [as] the history of class struggles." While Marx admitted that "[i]n the earlier epochs of history, we find almost...various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank," he believed that the epoch of the bourgeoisie had simplified the class antagonisms, saying that "[s]ociety...

...remind us that 'The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles' and that 'In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost...various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank' (1967: 80). Modern capitalist society, however, marked a break with previous forms of social gradation:...

...conditions of their existence have matured in the womb of the old society.—PE SOCIAL RANK In the early epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated...arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold graduation of social rank. In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle...