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Why is communism
not an ideological doctrine but a social movement ? Why do communists
act on the basis not of preconceived principles but of facts springing from
the actual class struggle ? Why is communism, to the, degree it is
a theory, the generalization of the historical line of march of the working
class, and of the political conditions, for its liberation ?
How did the proletariat come into existence, and why is it the only consistent revolutionary class ?
Why do workers organize in unions, and how does capitalism itself constantly compel them to unite ?
Is it possible to end the status of women as an oppressed
sex and establish their complete political, social, and economic equality
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How can the working class build a communist leadership
and fight for political power ? How can workers and farmers unite across
national boundaries to fight for the common interests of the exploited and
oppressed, and struggle for a socialist world ?
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels - who drafted this manifesto
in 1847 as the program of the first modern communist workers organization
- take up these and other questions that are as pressing today as ever.
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