1848 TheCommunistManifesto
- (Marx & Engels, 1848) ⇒ Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels. (1848). “Manifest der kommunistischen Partei (The Communist Manifesto)."
Subject Headings: Communist League, Revolutions of 1848, Class Struggle, Marxism, Communism, Political Treatise,
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- It can be a political manifesto.
- It can be a political pamphlet.
- It can advocate for communism.
- It can critique capitalism.
- It can call for the working class to revolt against the bourgeoisie.
- It can present historical materialism as an analytical framework.
- It can outline the ten-point program for communist revolution.
- It can analyze class struggle as the motor of history.
- It can predict the inevitable collapse of capitalism.
- It can describe the development of the bourgeoisie from feudalism.
- It can expose bourgeois family relations as based on capital.
- It can critique utopian socialism and reactionary socialism.
- It can distinguish scientific socialism from other socialist movements.
- It can establish the international character of the proletarian struggle.
- It can theorize the abolition of private property.
- It can propose the abolition of bourgeois family.
- It can advocate for universal education and abolition of child labor.
- It can explain how productive forces outgrow relations of production.
- It can describe proletarianization of the middle class.
- It can identify the revolutionary potential of the proletariat.
- It can articulate the communist position on nationality and religion.
- It can serve as the founding document of modern communism.
- It can function as a call to action for workers of the world.
- It can provide a critique of German philosophy and French socialism.
- It can establish class consciousness as a political necessity.
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- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto Retrieved:2015-1-28.
- The Communist Manifesto (officially Manifesto of the Communist Party) is an 1848 political manifesto by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that laid out the programme of the Communist League. Originally published in German (as Manifest der kommunistischen Partei) just as the revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, the Manifesto has since been recognized as one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and present) and the problems of capitalism and the capitalist mode of production, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms.
The Communist Manifesto contains Marx and Engels' theories about the nature of society and politics, that in their own words, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles". It also briefly features their ideas for how the capitalist society of the time would eventually be replaced by socialism, and then finally communism.
- The Communist Manifesto (officially Manifesto of the Communist Party) is an 1848 political manifesto by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that laid out the programme of the Communist League. Originally published in German (as Manifest der kommunistischen Partei) just as the revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, the Manifesto has since been recognized as one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and present) and the problems of capitalism and the capitalist mode of production, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms.
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Introduction
A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.
Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?
Two things result from this fact:
- I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be itself a power.
- II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a manifesto of the party itself.
To this end, Communists of various nationalities have assembled in London and sketched the following manifesto, to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages.
Chapter I. Bourgeois and Proletarians
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.
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| Author | volume | Date Value | title | type | journal | titleUrl | doi | note | year | |
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| 1848 TheCommunistManifesto | Karl Marx (1818-1883) Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) | The Communist Manifesto | 1848 |