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The Communist Manifesto By Karl Marx And Friedrich Engels

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In 1847, a group of radical workers who were called the “Communist League” met in London. During this meeting, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were commissioned to write a manifesto which soon became known as the Communist Manifesto. “A road map to history’s most important political document.” These words on the cover of one of the books newest editions to The Communist Manifesto represents that this document has been translated into many different form; this particular remake was meant for all levels of education. After reading the newly edited document by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels there is, indeed, a “road map” into the history of class struggles. The original Communist Manifesto opens with the words, “The history of all hitherto existing society, is the history of class struggles” (Gasper 39). This book expresses an attempt to explain the goals of Communism and its underlying movement. Also, the books argues that class struggles are the initial motivating force behind all the historical developments. Everything we have today and that society is today all leads back to the main cause; the revolutions and conflicts between the little people and the big people or rather, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Following Marx and Engels famous beginning words to their novel is the interior that elaborates on their proposition. The first section, which is named “Bourgeois and Proletarians”, is where Marx portrays his vision of history. Here he focusses on the development

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