Initial Impressions : The Communist Manifesto (1847)
“In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property” That’s the manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, in a nutshell. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels In the first section of the manifesto “Bourgeois and Proletarians” , Marx states that in “the history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles”, it is the bourgeoisie (the middle class) who were instrumental in instigating the working class to revolt against aristocracy for economic gains and not the other way around (at least until the time the Manifesto was written) The next piece “Proletarians and Communists” has Marx defining the role of Communists with respect to the common folk “The Communists are distinguished from the other working-class parties by this only: (1) In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interests of the entire pr...