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Workers of the world, unite!

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The political slogan "Workers of the world, unite!", one of the most famous rallying cries of socialism, comes from Karl Marx's and Friedrich Engels's Communist Manifesto. It is also inscribed on his tombstone. The actual translation is more normally given as "Working men," or "Proletarians of all countries, unite!"

This slogan was also the USSR State motto (Russian: ) and was used on the Coat of Arms of the Soviet Union.

In popular culture

Two indie albums have their names plays on this phrase: Shoplifters of the World Unite and Lonely People of the World, Unite!.

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