Karl Marx has been one of the most infleuntial figures in our time. He has produced numerous important political and economical doucments. Those who follow Marxist philsohies number a substantial portion of the world’s population. Karl Marx’s biggest contribution to society was the essay titled Capitol which transformed the way people look at any society. It deals with classical economic thoery in terms of labour, capitol accumulation and the law of increase in misery. He borrowed heavily from Adam Smith’s thoeries.

In 1836 redical german workers living in Paris formed a secret organization called the communist league in which Karl marx and Engls had become members.It is text containing twenty five questions and answers pertaining to socialism. This document elaborated the revoluntionary struggle for socialism by the workers. The communist manifesto was a herald of the coming of the revolution. It justified a national revolution but it was unsure of whether it should be a radical or restrained, communistic or democratic.

Marx begins the Manifesto by stating that the communist are the only alernative to the staus quo: “A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Communism”. This is backed by his assertion that communism itself is a power to be reckoned with.

1. Bourgeois and Proletarians German Third Edition

A Spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of communism. All the powers of old england have entered into a holy alliance to excerice this spectre. Communism is already aknowledged by all the European Powers to be itself a power.

The history of all Hitherto existing society is the history is the hsitory of the class struggle. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to each other, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now in open fight, a fight that each time ended either in a revolution re-constituted

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