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Oct 25, 2024 · The Communist Manifesto, pamphlet (1848) written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to serve as the platform of the Communist League. It became one of the principal programmatic statements of the European socialist and communist parties in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Learn more about The Communist Manifesto.
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The Communist Manifesto Full Work Summary. The Communist Manifesto reflects an attempt to explain the goals of Communism, as well as the theory underlying this movement. It argues that class struggles, or the exploitation of one class by another, are the motivating force behind all historical developments. Class relationships are defined by an ...
The Communist Manifesto (German: Das Kommunistische Manifest), originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party (Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), is a political pamphlet written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London in 1848. The text is the first and most systematic ...
- Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Martin Puchner, George Stade
- 1848
While Congress was still in preparation, Marx and Engels arrived at the conclusion that the final program document should be in the form of a Party manifesto (see Engels’ letter to Marx of November 23-24, 1847). The catechism form, usual for the secret societies of the time, and reflected in the earlier ―Draft of a Communist Confession of ...
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Chapter I. Bourgeois and Proletarians (1) The history of all hitherto existing society (2) is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master (3) and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now ...
The authors believe that society is ailing and in need of an intervention. They justify this belief by claiming that a revolution of the unhappy and exploited working class is inevitable ...
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Summary. Analysis. Marx and Engels explain that the purpose of communism is to support the proletariat. The Communist political party differs from other working-class parties only in that it seeks to unify proletarians of different countries independent of nationality, concentrating on the movement “as a whole.”.
