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Surplus population is produced by the workers' competition among themselves
Drawn from what Friedrich Engels said
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- Friedrich Engels German philosopher and social scientist (1820 to 1895)
Surplus population is engendered rather by the competition of the workers among themselves, which forces each separate worker to labour as much each day as his strength can possibly admit.
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