In Germany the petty-bourgeois class,a relic of the sixteenth century,and since then constantly cropping up again under various forms,is the real social basis of the existing state of things.

• 在德国，16世纪遗留下来的、从那时起经常以不同形式重新出现的小资产阶级，是现存制度的真实的社会基础。