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 Dinesh
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In 1848 the thirty-year-old Karl Marx (1818-1883) and the twenty-eight-year-old Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) published the “Communist Manifesto” www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf the Bible of socialism. The son of Jewish lawyer who had converted to Christianity, the atheistic young Marx had studied philosophy at the University of Berlin before turning to journalism and economics. He read widely in French socialist thought and was developing his own socialist ideas by the time he was twenty-five.

Each French socialists often appeared to the middle class and the state of help the poor. Marx argued that the interests of the middle class and those of the industrial working class are inevitably opposed to each other. Indeed, according to the Manifesto,’ the “history of all previously existing society in the history of class struggles.” In Marx’s view, one class had always exploited the other, and with the advent of modern industry, society and split more clearly than ever before: between the middle class -- the bourgeoisie -- and the modern working class -- the proletariat. Moreover, the bourgeoisi9e had reduced everything to a matter of money and “naked self-interest.” “In a word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, the bourgeoisie had substituted naked, shameless, direct brutal exploitation.”

Just at the bourgeoisie had triumphed over the feudal aristocracy, Marx predicted, the proletariat was destined to conquer the bourgeoisie in a violent revolution. While a tiny minority owned the means of production and grew richer, the ever-poorer proletariat was constantly growing in size and inclass consciousness. In this process, the proletariat was added, according to Marx, by a portion of the bourgeoisie who had gone over to the proletariat and who (like Marx and Engels) “had raised themselves to the level of comprehending theoretically the historical moment.” And the critical moment was very near. . . . Page 740
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 Dinesh
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Marx believed that he had put the explanation of historical development on a scientific footing, thus enabling mankind to predict the future development of society with scientific accuracy ~ 164
~ Bryan Magee
2 years ago.