A manifesto
is a document stating the core beliefs of a movement, be it artistic or political.
, published in 1948, states the core Marxist belief that history
is on an unstoppable path toward communism, a stateless society without private property and
characterized by social and economic equality.
Right now, the manifesto
argues, history is in a capitalist stage, in which a few very wealthy people, called the
bourgeoisie, own the means of production and have cornered most of the capital (money and
resources) in the society. They exploit the masses of people who actually create their wealth
through labor.
The bourgeoisie are afraid of the "specter" of
communism, which is casting its shadow across Europe, and so are producing lies about the
communist movementlies which the manifesto dispels. Communism is not about "free
love," for example. It is about state ownership of banks and large industries, the end of
child labor, free universal education, and the end of...
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