Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto

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« Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains! » - a slogan written by Karl Marx, not imagining that it will quickly become one of the most famous slogans of communism. Marx and Engels address to all workers of industrialised countries in order to raise awareness of their social class and to let them know about their historical role. Through this motto, they decided to write the Manifesto of the Communist party published in 1848. The choice to end the Manifesto with this motto was an excellent idea to set the internationalisation of the labour movement and its revolutionary activity off. Marx tried to enlighten the less educated populations about the different hardest concepts such as the dialectical materialism or