Utopian Society: The Communist Manifesto By Karl Marx

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Everyone is equal. No one is rich. No one is poor. Everyone has a fair hand in everything. There are no classes. Workers are not exploited. While this may sound like a genius idea, something which, if implemented, would result in a utopian society, its existence, in reality, was one of the worst things to occur in modern history.

Communism was created by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the 1840’s, who authored The Communist Manifesto in an effort to spread their shared ideology. One of the fundamental principles under Communism would be the abolition of personal belongings- everything belonged to the society, to the community. Everyone would make the same amount of money, doing the tasks assigned to them in order to improve the wellbeing