"The bourgeoisie has through its exploitation of the world market ... drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood. All old-established national industries have been destroyed or are daily being destroyed. The working men have no country. We cannot take from them what they have not got. Since the proletariat must first of all acquire political supremacy, must rise to be the leading class of the nation, must itself constitute the nation, it is in so far, national, though not in the bourgeois sense of the word." Karl Marx