Summary Of "Manifesto Of The Communist Party" By Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels: UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES

By MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

The Communist Manifesto emerged in the mid-nineteenth century, when the Second Industrial Revolution was unfolding in Europe, and the working class began to have more and more importance. This working class was brutally exploited by the capitalist class, but its objectives were not clear. MARX AND ENGELS TRIED TO RAISE AND ORGANIZE THE WORKERS SO THAT THEY WILL ORGANIZE INTO A revolutionary workers 'party, a WORKERS' PARTY, TO TAKE POWER, destroy capitalism and create a communist society, without exploiters or exploited.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU
• Release date: Oct 25, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201593490

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Mauricio Enrique Fau nació en Buenos Aires en 1965. Se recibió de Licenciado en Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cursó también Derecho en la UBA y Periodismo en la Universidad de Morón. Realizó estudios en FLACSO Argentina. Docente de la UBA y AUTOR DE MÁS DE 3.000 RESÚMENES de Psicología, Sociología, Ciencia Política, Antropología, Derecho, Historia, Epistemología, Lógica, Filosofía, Economía, Semiología, Educación y demás disciplinas de las Ciencias Sociales. Desde 2005 dirige La Bisagra Editorial, especializada en técnicas de estudio y materiales que facilitan la transición desde la escuela secundaria a la universidad. Por intermedio de La Bisagra publicó 38 libros. Participa en diversas ferias del libro, entre ellas la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires y la FIL Guadalajara.

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Summary Of Manifesto Of The Communist Party By Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Published by BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU, 2021.

While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

SUMMARY OF MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY BY KARL MARX & FRIEDRICH ENGELS

First edition. October 25, 2021.

Copyright © 2021 MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU.

ISBN: 979-8201593490

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Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto

A GHOST HAUNTS EUROPE, the ghost of communism. Against this phantom, all the powers of old Europe, the Pope and the Tsar, have united in a holy pack. Metternich and Guizot, the French radicals and the German policemen

. Where is there today an opposition party whose opponents in the government do not launch the infamous accusation of communist?

And where is there an opposition party that does not strike down with this disgraceful reproach both the most advanced opponents and their adversaries of the reaction?

Two consequences follow from this fact:

That communism is already recognized as a power by all European powers.

That the time has come for the communists to publicly expose their conceptions, objectives and tendencies to the whole world and to step out into the fables surrounding the ghost of communism with a manifesto of their own party.

For this purpose, communists of the most diverse nationalities have met in London and have drawn up this manifesto which will be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages.

Chapter I

BOURGEOIS AND PROLETARIANS

The history of all human societies to date has been the history of class struggle. Free man and slave, patrician and commoner, baron and servant of the gleba, master and official of the guild, in a word, oppressors and oppressed faced each other in perpetual antagonism, waging an incessant struggle, sometimes covert and sometimes frank, a struggle that is It ended in each case with a revolutionary transformation of the entire society or with the joint collapse of the opposing classes.

In earlier times of history we find almost everywhere a complete organic articulation of society in various strata, a varied hierarchical gradation of social positions. In ancient Rome we find patricians, knights, commoners, and slaves. In the Middle Ages to feudal lords, vassals, guild teachers and officers and servants of the gleba, apart from the fact that almost all these classes have their own internal hierarchy.

Modern bourgeois society, arising from the ruins of feudal society, has not suppressed class antagonisms. The only thing it has done is to establish new classes, new conditions of oppression and new forms of struggle to replace the previous ones.

Our age, the age of the bourgeoisie, is characterized, however, by the fact that it has simplified these class antagonisms. Step by step, the whole of society is splitting into two great enemy camps, into two great classes directly confronted: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.

From the medieval servants of the gleba, the pecheros of the first villages emerged. From these, the first elements of the bourgeoisie developed.

The discovery of America and the circumnavigation of Africa opened new paths for the rising bourgeoisie. The market of the East Indies and China, the colonization of America, the exchange with the colonies, the increase in the means of exchange and merchandise in general gave trade, navigation and industry a boom never seen before and , with it, a rapid development of the revolutionary element of decaying feudal society.

The until then prevailing feudal or union exploitation of the industry could no longer satisfy the needs that grew with the new markets and had to give way to manufacturing. The guild masters were displaced by the industrial middle class. The division of labor between the different corporations disappeared giving way to the division of labor within each workshop. But markets continued to expand and needs to grow. The same manufacture was already insufficient. Steam and machinery then came to revolutionize industrial production and manufacturing had to give way to large modern industry. The place of the industrial middle class was occupied by the millionaires of the industry, the heads of authentic factory armies, the modern bourgeoisie.

Great industry has created the world market previously prepared by the discovery of America. The world market has allowed a huge development of trade, navigation and communications by land. This development has had an impact, in turn, on the expansion of the industry. And to the same extent that industry and commerce, navigation and railways expanded, so did the bourgeoisie, increasing its capital and displacing all the original classes of the Middle Ages to the background.

We therefore see how the modern bourgeoisie is also the product of a long process of development, of a series of radical transformations of the modes of production and exchange. Each of these phases of development of the bourgeoisie went hand in hand with corresponding political progress. An oppressed estate under the domination of the feudal lords, later associated in armed communes and with autonomous administration, an independent citizen republic in some places, a third tributary state of the monarchy in others, it was later, in the era of manufacture, a counterweight against the nobility within the state or absolute monarchy; in any case, it was the social foundation of the great monarchies until, finally, it managed with its struggle to establish its exclusive political domination in the modern representative state on the two premises of great industry and the world market.

Modern state power is equivalent to the Board of Directors of the general interests of the whole bourgeoisie.

The bourgeoisie