The Communist Manifesto appeals mostly to the lowest of the lower class, what he called the "proletariat". The idea of a communist society is that everything is owned by the state. People are paid "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"; meaning that depending on how many people the salary must support is the determining factor in the size of the paycheck. This would appeal to the proletariats because

it would put them on equal footing with everyone else. The abolishment of a class system benefited them greatly. Marx reasoned that his ideals appealed most to the working class, therefore it would catch on in countries with large populations of working class people, i.e. Germany and Britain.

In Germany the communist revolution did occur, but not until thirty years after the Manifesto's publication. In 1848, the German Industrial Revolution had not even started. The Manifesto was read mostly by intellectuals, because the people Marx was trying to appeal to were illiterate. When the Industrial Revolution occurred, however, more literacy among the lower classes became necessary to operate the machines, which were getting more complicated. Now that they were literate, the proletariats could and did read The Communi

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