- Communism is already acknowledged by all European Powers to be itself a power.
- Communists should openly and in the face of the whole world publish their views, their aims, their tendencies…with a manifesto of the party itself .
Communists in different nationalities met in London and created the contained manifesto to be published in English, French, German, Italian, Flemish, and Danish languages.
Bourgeois and Proletarians
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
…”modern bourgeoise is itself the product of a long course of development , of a series of revolutions in the modes of production and exchange. ” They created a position for themselves. .” …bourgeoise has at last , since the establishment of Modern Industry and of the world market, conquered for itself, in the modern representative state, exclusive political sway.. .
“…The bourgeoisie…It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to “natural superiors…It has resolved personal growth into exchange value, and in the place of the numberless indefensible chartered freedoms, has set up that single , unconscionable freedom-Free Trade. “
…It is unfit to rule because it is incompetent to assure an existence to its slave within his slavery, because it cannot help letting him sink into such a state, that it has to feed him, instead of being fed by him. Society can no longer live under the bourgeoise, in other words, its existence is no longer compatible with society.
…Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of appropriations…
Notes- Leilani Merrill 01/2026
Philosophy Forever 