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Friedrich Engels

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

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Friedrich Engels is saying that throughout time, societies have been shaped by conflicts between groups with power and those without it. These struggles have occurred differently depending on the social and economic conditions of each historical period.

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