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It may be said that until our own times, 'class hatred,' as a conscious hatred proud of itself, was chiefly the hatred of the laborer for the bourgeois. The reciprocal hatred was much less clearly confessed. Ashamed of an egotism they thought peculiar to their own caste... would not admit even to themselves that it existed, tried to convince themselves and others that it was a form of interest in the common good.
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The condensation of political passions into a small number of very simple hatred, springing from the deepest roots of the human heart, is a conquest of modern times.
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