arl Marx and Friedrich Engels Communist Manifesto

MEHAP-Andrew Fortugno

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Communist Manifesto

The social order is divided into the oppressive Bourgeoisie and the oppressed Proletariat, and the ultimate goal of the Proletariat is to abolish private property, which will create a classless society

1. Karl Marx

a. Doctorate at the University of Jena 1841

b. Edited a newspaper that was surprised by Prussian authorities

c. Met Friedrich Engels in his native Rhineland in Paris

d. Went to Brussels after being expelled from France at the request of Prussia

e. 1848 he wrote the Communist Manifesto

f. Returned to Prussia to participate Revolutions of 1848

g. Expelled from Prussia again in 1849

2. Communist Manifesto, a philosophy of history and theory of society

a. Lays out the building up throughout history of conflict between oppressor and oppressed which ends with Bourgeoisie and Proletariat

b. Bourgeoisie has a distinctive feature, it simplified class antagonisms into two distinct factions

c. The discover of America paved the way for Modern Industry

d. The modern representative state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie

e. Due to the extensive use of machinery and to the division of labor the work of the proletarians has lost all individual character

f. The Proletariat begins to organize in trade unions against the Bourgeoisie

g. As the Proletariat is further alienated from the old society he seeks to destroy it.

h. Once the Proletariat conquers society becomes classes and individual property is destroyed.