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The Communist Manifesto By Karl Marx

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Karl Marx was the child of middle-class Jews in western Germany who had converted to Lutheranism. The popular, “The Communist Manifesto” was curated in 1848, by Marx and his lifelong friend and associate Friedrich Engels, who helped organize revolutionary groups. Marx created a new worldview of the facts, theories, and hopes of the industrial age. Marxism offered a unified view and a psychological substitute for traditional religion. He stressed the international character of working-class movements, claiming the system promises misery to the laborers and contains contradictions to ensure its own destruction. The movement split into two broad camps: evolutionary and revolutionary. Mark believed that the ruling class of each age provides laws …show more content…

The effects of these revolutions had been to overthrow feudalism and its noble ruling class, thereby paving the way for new capitalist economic order in which the ruling class would be the bourgeoisie. Marx regarded the bourgeoisie’s exploitation of the proletariat the most brutal in history. The bourgeoisie’s constructive progress did allow the proletarian to prepare for their revolution, aiming for a higher goal fulfillment. This class was being drawn into industrial centers in large numbers and all it needed was Marxist instruction and organization. Dismantling the old social order and taking over the means of production would be carried under the dictatorship of the proletariat, followed by a period of “socialism” during which individuals would work according to their ability and receive according to output, reaching pure communism. Marx believed that without class struggle, there would be no reason of existence for a state. Bringing forth the idea of true liberty for all, communist society would plan and carry out productions; individuals would work according to their abilities and receiving according to their needs. There would also be private persuasion that would replace police, prisons and

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