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The Communist Manifesto: Understanding Karl Marx's Concept Of History

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The opening to The Communist Manifesto holds the key to understanding Karl Marx's concept of history and historical events. Karl Marx outlines history as a linear chain of events in his work. A constant progression of class divisions being generated and overthrown, until the final result is a utopian end. This sytem created by Karl Marx would be otherwise known as Communism. The Communist always strived for revolution, and always struggle for the proletarians to free themselves from the shackles of the Bourgeoisie. The proletariat being the worker, which works hard day and night all for the profits of the Bourgeoisie. As Karl Marx said “The history of all hitherto societies is the history of class struggles, ” (pg 57). This not only portrayed
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