Communist Manifesto By Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Proletarians-the working class intended to "haunt" Europe and seize control of it. For these people as well as all the other European socialist and communist parties in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, The Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, eventually became one of the principal programmatic statements. ... The intention of it is the same as of the entire chapter, the acknowledgement of the spread of communism and its strength ("Communist Manifesto"). The role of the "Manif...

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In the second section of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' Communist Manifesto, appropriately titled "Proletarians and Communists," the authors craft a series of hypothetical criticisms, in which those that are opposed to the ideas of communism point out various flaws in its structure. ... Although these criticisms are strictly rhetorical, the main purpose of the criticisms is to get rid of any doubts in the proletarian minds concerning communism, so that they will be properly informed and will not have any hesitation in rising up to fulfill the overthrow of the ruling bourgeoisie...

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