the Communist Party. [1] In particular the text will be situated historically, as well as within a

scheme of development of Marxist thought. The main problem and arguments of the text

will be explored with emphasis on Marx's outline of the historical development of

capitalism, as well as the development of the capitalist and working classes.

The Manifesto of the Communist Party was written in 1847 by Karl Marx and

Friedrich Engels for the Communist League of London. It is this Manifesto that Marx first

applies his concept of historical materialism, which he constructed in 1846 in The German

Ideology. This alternative theory of history synthesized materialism and idealism to

ultimately describe society as a social totality; with the mode of production being a historical

phenomenon giving rise to civil society. Following the Manifesto, Marx and Engels

continue to apply historical materialism to society, as seen in Capital. Capital was written in

1867 by Marx and Engels, and it focused on analyzing the capitalist mode of production. In

particular this work uses dialectical thinking to explain Marx's th

476) Marx notes the capitalists' influence on the political relations of society by writing

lower strata of the middle class - the small tradespeople, shopkeepers ... all these sink

legal restrictions on land and setting up private property in order to help capitalism prosper.

taken by the giant, Modern Industry, the place of the industrial middle class, by industrial

slave, ... lord and serf ... in a word oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to

individualism following the introduction of capitalism. "The bourgeoisie, whenever it has

not only increases in number; it becomes concentrated in greater masses, its strength grows

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