All 4 Uses of
contrary
in
The Communist Manifesto
- Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes.†
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- The productive forces at the disposal of society no longer tend to further the development of the conditions of bourgeois property; on the contrary, they have become too powerful for these conditions, by which they are fettered, and so soon as they overcome these fetters, they bring disorder into the whole of bourgeois society, endanger the existence of bourgeois property.†
- The modern laborer, on the contrary, instead of rising with the progress of industry, sinks deeper and deeper below the conditions of existence of his own class.†
- To every villainous meanness of this model man it gave a hidden, higher, Socialistic interpretation, the exact contrary of its real character.†
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