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Communist ManifestoPamphlet written in 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to serve as the platform of the Communist League. It argued that industrialization had exacerbated the divide between the capitalist ruling class and the proletariat, which had become impoverished, and called on the proletariat to overthrow the capitalists, abolish private property, and take over the means of production. It predicted an eventual classless society and the gradual elimination of the need for a state. It ends by stating, “The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite.” How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The view expressed here is cognate with the eighth plank of the Communist Manifesto, which proclaims the "universal liability of all to serve" as the state dictates. He writes about Communism that, "We have seen that seventy years after Marx's Communist Manifesto the working classes in the capitalist states of the world were largely immune to Communism. Since it was domesticated about 5,500 years ago, Yafa writes, cotton has robed ancient Egyptian priests, generated the conflicts that led to the American Civil War, inspired the Communist Manifesto, fooled Columbus into thinking he had reached Asia, motivated single American women to leave home for the first time in history, and played a pivotal role in Mahatma Gandhi's fight for India's independence. |
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