Karl Marx And Engels 'The Communist Manifesto'

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In 1848 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published The Communist Manifesto. Communism is a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and need, ‘‘Thus, the needs of a society would be put above and beyond the specific needs of an individual.’’. Marx and Engels desired to end capitalism feeling that it was the social class system that led to the exploitation of workers. The workers that were less valuable would develop class consciousness causing conflict among the classes that would be resolved through violent means. In theory communism sounds like a good idea but in reality it has never worked.

Communism also known as a command system is the idea of equal sharing based on work