Communist Manifesto
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Title
Communist Manifesto
Subject
Karl Marx and Communism
Description
The Communist Manifesto attempt to explain the goals of Communism, as well as the theory underlying this movement. Marx explains that the main goal of the communist is to rightfully establish a class for the proletarian and to takeover the means of production that is controlled by bourgeois. Although change is bound to happen with the rise of capitalism, many non-aristocrats are become more wealthier than the aristocrats them selves that ultimately leads to conflict amongst them. The French Revolution is a prime example of the old feudal society being overthrown by the bourgeois. Marx comes to understand that they cannot go back an agriculture economy and pretend the Industrial Revolution never happened. In order to progress they need to eliminate private property that is controlled by the bourgeois, and to make the working class in change of the means of production in order to provide for themselves and for the country.
Creator
Karl Marx & Frederick Engels
Source
Primary Source
Publisher
Communist League
Date
February 21, 1848
Contributor
Willian Diaz
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The immediate aim of the communist is the same as that of all the other proletarian parties: formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat.
The theoretical conclusions of the communists are in no way based on ideas or principles that have been invested, or discovered, by this or that would-be universal reformer.
They merely express, in general terms, actual relations springing from an existing class struggle, from a historical movement going on under our very eyes. The abolition of existing property relations is not at all a distinctive feature of communism.
All property relations in the past have continually been subject to historical changed consequent upon the change in historical conditions.
The French revolution, form example, abolished feudal property in favour of the bourgeois property.
The distinguishing feature of communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property. But modern bourgeois private property is the final and most complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products, that is based on class antagonism, on the exploitation of the many by the few.
In this sense the theory of the communist may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The theoretical conclusions of the communists are in no way based on ideas or principles that have been invested, or discovered, by this or that would-be universal reformer.
They merely express, in general terms, actual relations springing from an existing class struggle, from a historical movement going on under our very eyes. The abolition of existing property relations is not at all a distinctive feature of communism.
All property relations in the past have continually been subject to historical changed consequent upon the change in historical conditions.
The French revolution, form example, abolished feudal property in favour of the bourgeois property.
The distinguishing feature of communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property. But modern bourgeois private property is the final and most complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products, that is based on class antagonism, on the exploitation of the many by the few.
In this sense the theory of the communist may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
Citation
Karl Marx & Frederick Engels, “Communist Manifesto,” 19th & 20th Century Europe, accessed May 17, 2024, https://europeanhistory.omeka.net/items/show/60.