The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i. e. , the class … - Karl Marx

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The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i. e. , the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

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