Communism
The idea of a classless society goes as far back as the ancient Greeks, but it wasn't until the publication of the Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, that the modern idea of communism would actually be implemented. Communism, by defintion, is a "system of political and economic organization in which property is owned by the community and all citizens share in the enjoyment of the common wealth, more or less according to their need." In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels raised the notion that capitalist systems had inherent within them, the seeds of their own destruction, and that a classless society would inevitable emerge out of the ashes of capitalism. According to Marx and Engels, the emergence of communism follows a script that goes essentially like this: (1) the masses are always exploited by the minority ruling class—it is inherent in human nature; (2) people will only take so much— eventually the masses will rise up against their opressors; (3) having learned from the past, the revolutionaries create a classless society in which all individuals are equal. Karl Marx was a social scientist and a philosopher. Although he was one of the greatest social thi
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