What Was The Impact Of The Communist Manifesto

On the day of February 21, 1848, The Communist Manifesto, was published in the city of London by a group of German-born revolutionary socialists that were apart of the Communist League. The Communist Manifesto itself was written a man named Karl Marx with the help of a man named of Friedrich Engels. The political pamphlet(which is arguably the most influential piece of paper in history) stated that “the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” It also described how the unavoidable victory of the proletariats (working class) would put an end to all societies with classes. It was originally published in German as the Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei (which means: “Manifesto of the Communist Party” in English). In its early years, the work had very a small amount immediate impact. However, its ideas echoed with more and more people listening to it as we ventured into the 20th century. By 1950, nearly 50% the world’s population was living under Marxist governments.

He was the son of a Jewish lawyer who had converted to Lutheranism when he was young. He studied philosophy and law at the universities of Jena and Berlin. Marx was initially was a follower of G.W.F. Hegel, a German philosopher of the19th-century German philosopher who wanted an all-embracing system of philosophy. In the year1842, Karl Marx became the editor of the Rheinische Zeitung, which was a democratic liberal newspaper in Cologne, Germany. Under his guidance, the newspaper grew greatly, but in the year of 1843 the Prussian authorities forced it to stop printing for being too outspoken. That same year, Marx moved to Paris to co-edit a new politically centered