Note 403 — Chapter I · : SISMONDI AND THE ORIGINS OF THE CRITICAL SCHOOL

“There is one fundamental change which is still possible in society, amid this universal struggle created by competition, and that is the introduction of the proletariat into the ranks of human beings—the proletariat, whose name, borrowed from the Romans, is so old, but who is himself so new.” (Études sur l’Économie politique, vol. i, p. 34.)