All 8 Uses of
attain
in
The Communist Manifesto
- If anywhere they unite to form more compact bodies, this is not yet the consequence of their own active union, but of the union of the bourgeoisie, which class, in order to attain its own political ends, is compelled to set the whole proletariat in motion, and is moreover yet, for a time, able to do so.†
attain = gain or reach something with effort
- And that union, to attain which the burghers of the Middle Ages, with their miserable highways, required centuries, the modern proletarians, thanks to railways, achieve in a few years.†
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- German Socialism forgot, in the nick of time, that the French criticism, whose silly echo it was, presupposed the existence of modern bourgeois society, with its corresponding economic conditions of existence, and the political constitution adapted thereto, the very things whose attainment was the object of the pending struggle in Germany.†
attainment = the gaining or reaching of something with effort; or something gained with effort
- Bourgeois Socialism attains adequate expression, when, and only when, it becomes a mere figure of speech.†
attains = gains or reaches something with effort
- The first direct attempts of the proletariat to attain its own ends, made in times of universal excitement, when feudal society was being overthrown, these attempts necessarily failed, owing to the then undeveloped state of the proletariat, as well as to the absence of the economic conditions for its emancipation, conditions that had yet to be produced, and could be produced by the impending bourgeois epoch alone.†
attain = gain or reach something with effort
- Hence, they reject all political, and especially all revolutionary, action; they wish to attain their ends by peaceful means, and endeavour, by small experiments, necessarily doomed to failure, and by the force of example, to pave the way for the new social Gospel.†
- The Communists fight for the attainment of the immediate aims, for the enforcement of the momentary interests of the working class; but in the movement of the present, they also represent and take care of the future of that movement.†
attainment = the gaining or reaching of something with effort; or something gained with effort
- They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.†
attained = gained or reached something with effort
Definition:
to gain or reach something with effort