The peasant wars of Europe indicate a phase of comparatively concentrated property when large masses of people could feel themselves expropriatedand at a common disadvantage, and so take mass action.
Marx, who did not so much advocate the class-war, the war of the expropriated mass against the appropriating few, as foretell it, is being more and more justified by events.
The growing mass of the expropriated was permeated by that vague, baffled, and hopeless sense of being inexplicably bested, which is the preparatory condition for all great revolutionary movements.
Indeed in a large number of cases it is scarcely more than a resentful consciousness in the expropriated masses of social disintegration.
The expropriated farmers took forcible possession of the state governments.
In their desperation they ravaged the farms for food, and the consequent tumult and anarchy in the country districts but increased the woes of the poor expropriated farmers.
Some of this property has been alreadyexpropriated by the State partially or totally.
The monks continued in the full enjoyment of their property till 1835, when all the property of the regular clergy throughout the Peninsula and the colonies was expropriated by the Government.
These results we see in the accelerated concentration of immense wealth running side by side with a propertyless, expropriated and exploited multitude.
If it were true that, by declaring all ownerless lands to be Government property, the Congo State had expropriated the natives, all these various legislative systems could be attacked on the same ground.
It stands on the actual site of the former native town of Bikoro, an important Settlement in 1893, now reduced to a handful of ill-kept, untidy huts, inhabited by only a remnant of its former expropriated population.
That which is now to be expropriated is no longer the labourer working for himself, but the capitalist employing many labourers.
In this process the mechanic is expropriated by the manufacturer, the peasant by the great landowner, the small dealer by the large merchant, and, finally, one capitalist by another.
As the opposition of the Bourgeoisie is broken, as it is expropriated and gradually absorbed into the working groups, the proletarian dictatorship disappears, until finally the State dies and there are no more class distinctions.
It must be particularly emphasized that small properties will in no way be expropriated and that small property owners who are not exploiters of labor will not be forcibly dispossessed.
Is it really in bulk anything more than a mass of prejudice and conceit, cynical indulgence, and a hard suspicion of and hostility to the expropriated classes in the community?
It stands for the expropriated multitude, whose whole situation and difficulty arise from its individual lack of initiative and organising power.
It was subsequently expropriated and given by the Convention to the five learned academies of France, and is now known as the Institut de France.
Footnote 44: The reformers always discover the nunneries to be so much more corrupt than the monasteries, but it is a little suspicious that in every case the former are expropriated to the latter.
The reformers always discover the nunneries to be so much more corrupt than the monasteries, but it is a little suspicious that in every case the former are expropriated to the latter.
It is charged, moreover, that the bitter opposition to the Bolsheviki is mainly due to agitation by the bourgeoisie, led by the expropriated landowners, who want to defeat the Revolution and to have their former titles to the land restored.
No expropriated class ever acted otherwise, and it would be foolish to expect anything else.
In some occupied territories the defendants interfered with religious services, persecuted members of the clergy and monastic orders, and expropriated church property.
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