Vol. 06 · Misquoted ·Book ·340 of 348
"Workers of the world, unite!"
They never said that.
What people say
"Workers of the world, unite!"
What was actually said
"Proletarians of all countries, unite!" Marx and Engels — The Communist Manifesto (1848) by Marx and Engels
Why it stuck
Engels's 1888 English translation kept "Proletarians." The "workers" slogan is a 20th-century simplification.
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