One of the most influential political, social and economic texts of all time and the most influential one in the 20th century written in 1848 by
german philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Karl Marx, the
father of both Communism and
Socialism wrote alongside with his collaborator Friedrich Engels the Communist Manifesto or the Manifesto of the Communist party which is a document that outlines the progression of Capitalism and the detriments of Capitalism on society and the implementation of Communism as the solution. In the end of the manifesto it is advocated the overthrow of all existing social conditions and for the workers of the world to unite and to seize the means of production to pave way for the transition from Capitalism to
Socialism and ultimately to Communism.
"The
history of all hitherto existing society is the
history of class struggles".
-Karl Marx
"Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole." -Karl Marx
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite! -Karl Marx
One of the most accepted definitions of Communism is the strictly theoretical system imagined by Karl Marx in which all of society, all of economics and all
politics are combined into one, perfect, classless, automatic,
government-less system based on common ownership of all economic means of production, and social sameness. To achieve this utopian
dream, Karl Marx and Frederich Engels wrote the "Communist Manifesto" to inspire violent revolution everywhere.
Communism, as such, does not exist, has never existed, and perhaps
may never exist.
Communism has failed so far to fulfill its promise of an egalitarian society based on working-class values.
