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What is the spectre haunting Europe according to Marx, and what are the powers of Europe trying to do about it?
Communism, they are trying to exorcise it.
What is the history "of all hitherto existing society" according to Marx?
The history of class struggles.
What are the two great hostile camps that modern society has split into?
Bourgeois and Proletarians.
What historical discovery paved a way for modern industry's establishment of the world market?
The discovery of America.
What distinguishes the bourgeois epoch of history from all other ones?
It has constant revolutionizing of production and uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions.
How does bourgeois capitalism conquer the world and force every other society into capitalism?
They made cheap prices of commodity, which forces everyone to adopt the Bourgeois. If you don't adopt the Bourgeois you would become extinct
What have the changes of production created by bourgeois capitalism called into being from "the nether world"?
The Proletarians.
How does Marx describe the modern working class?
A class of laborers that are a commodity, who lives as long as they can find work.
Of all the groups who deal with the bourgeois capitalists, who is the only one that is revolutionary and why?
The Proletarians, because they are created by the Bourgeois and the poor are fighting back to save their people.
How does Marx sum up the theory of communism?
Abolition of private property.
What other institutions does communism want to abolish?
It wants to get rid of anything Bourgeoisie
Why, according to Marx, are man's philosophies, world views, and religions always changing?
They change with each change of our material's existence.
What kind of education does communism want to destroy?
Home education.
Why are national differences and antagonisms vanishing, according to Marx?
They are vanishing because of the development of Bourgeoisie and capitalism.
What did Christian ideas succumb to, according to Marx?
The 18th century rationalism.
What is the first step in the revolution of the working class?
The raise the Proletariat to the status of the ruling class.
For what will the proletariat use its political supremacy?
To rest all power from the bourgeoisie, centralize production, and increase production.
What will happen when class distinctions finally disappear?
The public power will lose its political character
What are the final words of the book?
Workers of the World Unite!
What year was the Communist Manifesto published?
1848
What was the purpose of The Communist Manifesto?
To convince people to be communists
Of what class was Marx himself a member?
Bourgeoisie
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