Marx's vision of a communistic society has helped to pave the way for a better capitalistic system. ... For instance, Marx's Communist Manifesto opens with the words, "The history of all hitherto societies has been the history of class struggles." ... In describing his communistic state, he considers the bourgeoisie as the negative influence dividing society. ... Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was instrumental in establishing communistic beliefs like worker rights. ... Marx details the social changes communists hope to encourage the proletariat to implement. ...

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While in London Marx helped formed the international Communist League. In 1848 he wrote The Manifesto of the Communist Party. ... In the new communist society capital will be converted into common property. ... I don't agree with it and I have the advantage of living in the future, and I have seen Communism fail, but there is strength in how how passionately he wrote The Communist Manifesto. ...

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Marx's famous quote from the Communist Manifesto (1848) demonstrates this when he tells the workers of the world to unite, as "you have nothing to lose but your chains- , gives us an instant insight into the Marxist perspective, and demonstrates how it was class antagonisms that led to the founding of a new order. ... Marx states, in the communist manifesto that the bourgeois society that had "sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms- and goes on to say that "Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into tw...

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Critically Examine the Pluralist Theory of the State Before we can examine the pluralist theory of the state it is first necessary to define exactly what is meant by the term state'. Once this is done we can look at the pluralist conception of the state, or more accurately, the pluralist concep...

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