Resumo de Manifesto Of The Communist Party

Karl Marx wrote that a specter was haunting Europe: the specter of communism. Just about everything that Marx wrote in this book has come to fruition except for the widespread acceptance of communism as the only fair system of economics. Marx begins by outlining the history of economics and how it has come to result in two distinct classes of parties, the bourgeois and the proletarians. He explains how the history of society is really nothing more than the history of these two classes continually struggling over power and property. The bourgeois owners, in order to continually expand their markets, nestle everywhere across the globe, turning as much of the population as is possible into consumers. They have successfully commodified everything and in the process alienated the worker from that which he produces (and now, even from that which he consumes.) Marx saw clearly that in for for the capitalist system to survive, new, false wants would have to be created once everyone had enough to actually survive. In order for the capitalist mode of free-market trade to expand, of course, it must push, by force and aggression if necessary, into those markets which are resistant to the capitalist mode of thought. Hence, why there have many so many unnecessary wars.

Marx later outlines exactly what a communist is and it might surprise the modern reader very much to find out that a communist is nothing at all like the evil character created by Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his ilk. This section of the manifesto clears up the fallacy regarding the fear that communists are bent on taking away every man's property and sharing it with others. Marx points out that capital is not a personal power at all, but a social power. Paragraph by paragraph, Marx explains the communist thought behind doing away with the illusion of private property, with oppression of women and children, with countries and nationalities and nationalism.

Marx then goes on to subdivide socialist and communist literature in 1) Reactionary literature as exemplified by a) feudal socialism, b) petty-bourgeois socialism and c) German, or true socialism; 2) Conservative, or bourgeois, socialism, and 3) Critical-Utopian Socialism and Communism. He gives a short history and an analysis of each of these types of socialism and literature.

The Communist Manifesto ends with section 4: Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties. Here Marx outlines what exactly the communists support both in various individual countries and globally. The manifesto ends with the famous, though usually misworded, call to arms: Working Men of all Countries, Unite!

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