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Brutal treatment turns the worker into a thing without volition, past which freedom ceases
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- Friedrich Engels German philosopher and social scientist (1820 to 1895)
Under the brutal and brutalising treatment of the bourgeoisie, the working-man becomes precisely as much a thing without volition as water, and is subject to the laws of nature with precisely the same necessity; at a certain point all freedom ceases.
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