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The Communist Manifesto

Posted by RRC on July 18, 2006

In Reply to: "All that's solid melts in air." posted by Nancy Wilson on July 18, 2006

: The phrase is "All that's solid melts in air."
: My brother has asked me to determine its origin. Google has no references.
: Somebody wrote it in a letter to him, noting that it was from Karl Marx ("of course").
: My brother had a feeling it was from Shakespeare / "The Tempest", but looked and did not immediately find it. Nor could he find in what context Marx said it - if he did.
: Can anyone help us sort this out? Thanks!

"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real condition of life and his relations with his kind" - Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html

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