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Submitted by libertystewart on April 24, 2008
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The Communist Manifesto: A Worker's Call to Arms
Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto to hopefully give some kind of guidance to his fellow workers or proletarians. It was to offer education as to their exploitation as a worker in a capitalistic society and the means to change it. When this was written it shook the social and economic worlds. It did so probably because their was some truth in what he wrote and dared to bring to light.
Communism was the end result of Marx's beliefs. That you were a Marxist if you agreed with what he said and communism was what you all worked to achieve. He believed in the uniting of the working class or proletariat as a whole and that their immediate goals were "formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat." (Marx 66) to achieve these goals Marx laid out a set of loose guidelines in which to follow. One was to abolish private property. Not to forever do away with private property but rather the "abolition of bourgeois property." (Marx 67) He argued that private property was not really private if it was used to further exploit the proletariat. He made a case that property was synonymous with capital, and that capital should be converted into common property. Thereby losing its characteristics of classes in which it was previously used to exploit. If the proletariats were truly given the chance to own property and to have capital, they would not continue to fall deeper into the hole that the bourgeois are creating for them.
It is important to point out that Marx believed, "The history of existing society is the history of class struggle." (Marx 50) All conflicts are created because the bourgeois exploit the proletariat to get ahead in society. The few bourgeois control most of the wealth or capital in the current society while the many proletariat are exploited and driven into further poverty by those few in...
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