Proletarians-the working class intended to "haunt" Europe and seize control of it. For these people as well as all the other European socialist and communist parties in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, The Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, eventually became one of the principal programmatic statements. The book was preaching for the fall of the ruling classes and the emergence of the workers. This being the main topic of the "Manifesto" inspired people to believe that the bourgeois exploited them as well as everything else only to benefit themselves. In four chapters and an introduction, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, develop the fall of bourgeoisie, the idea of communism and most importantly the rise of proletariat.
The "Manifesto" opens with a phrase: "A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of communism."
An idea of uniting all humans and creating a world of equilibrium never came true. Capitalism and globalization led by multi-national companies emerged as victors, instead of workers.
Even though it is already introduced in the very beginning of the manifesto, communism and its purpose are shown later in the second chapter: the formation of the proletariat into a class, the overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, and the conquest of political power by the proletariat (Mendal 25). The core if the communists is defined by a single sentence, "the abolition of private property" (Mendal 26). The property, which has been a symbol of the power and the wealth of the bourgeois, had to be distributed to the workers supporting the previous chapter in its intent to overthrow the bourgeois. The workers deserved their land, it was hard won, self-acquired, self-earned. The loss of class in mentioned again, showing how it would d
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