Communist Manifesto

Thesis: The basis of Karl Marx's and Mark Engel's philosophy was that conflict in modern society was, at heart, a conflict between the different classes who were competing with one another over economic interests.

x- There's always been a system of the oppressor and the oppressed- modern bourgeois is no different from the conflicts of the feudal age

x- However, bourgeois has simplified the class antagonisms- divided between Bourgeoisie and Proletariat

x- Bourgeois has gained special, exclusive political sway in the current state due to developments such as American colonization and manufacturing changes

x- The individual has lost all reason to live other than the pursuit of capital. Man is only useful insofar as he is valuable in the marketplace, like a piece of machinery.

x- The prolitariat becomes more united into labor unions as they are forced to become the same low wage workers. The lower classes all lose the values of family, enjoyment, etc that the bourgeois now enjoys and attempts to cement for themselves.

x-The bourgeois will inevitably fall as the prolitariat, which is the first movement to represent the interests of the majority, seeks to topple them in each nation

x- The Communists represent the most advanced form of this resistance and aim for conquest of political power.

x-Private property is the most recent, important development of the bourgeois- the Communists aim to abolish private property for that reason

x-Must abolish all forms of oppression- political power, religion, etc is all used to oppress another group for ones benefit- the communists openly celebrate their aims and work openly to overthrow this system.