The Communist Manifesto begins with Marx's generalization that " history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." ... They are necessary consequence of bourgeois modes of production. ...

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They all suffer from at least one of three problems: they look to previous modes of social organization for a solution to present difficulties, they deny the inherent class character of the existing conflict; they do not recognize that violent revolution on the part of the proletariat is the only way to eradicate the conditions of oppression. ... Marx announces the communist intention to "everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things" (pg. 120). ...

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