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What does Engels write about crime in The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845)?
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Under the brutal and brutalizing treatment of the bourgeoisie, the working-man becomes precisely as much a thing without volition as water, and is subject to the laws of Nature with precisely the same necessity; at a certain point all freedom ceases. Hence with the extension of the proletariat, crime has increased in England, and the British nation has become the most criminal in the world. The increase of crime in England has proceeded with incomprehensible rapidity. Some facts are gave by her which are certainly more than sufficient to bring any one, even a bourgeois, to pause and reflect upon the consequences of such a state of things.