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The Communist Manifesto

The Communist Manifesto
MARX'S MAIN ARGUMENT
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The Communist Manifesto offers a rousing call to arms for the proletarian revolution. Marx and Engels claim the bourgeois and proletariat classes have no common interests or goals and are destined to fight for control of capital and all aspects of society. The clash will cause the collapse of capitalism and dominance of communism.
Workers
Factories use wages to exploit workers and give the wealth they generate to the bourgeoisie.
Class Struggle
The class struggle between the bourgeoisie and proletariat is a permanent and irreconcilable conflict under capitalism.
Revolution
As the class struggle advances through stages, it produces the proletarian revolution.
Communism
With workers liberated from exploitation, class divisions wither away as does the need for government, creating a free and egalitarian society.
Proletaria
The working class is made up of many urban industrial wage workers.
Bourgeoisie
The owners of wealth, especially the means of production, include industrialists and capitalists.
Historical Materialism
Financial factors in society—such as class and economics—are the driving forces of history.