Different Ideologies in Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto

The Communist Manifesto

Communism movements were revolutionary or proletarian movements that were inspired by the ideas of Marxism concerning the social inequality that was a major concern in the 19th century. These revolutions aimed at replacing the then dominant capitalist era with socialism. Communism was driven by the ideas of Marx and suggested that the workers of the world were to be united and free themselves from the capitalist oppression, and this was to create a world run by the working class (Marx, Philip and Friedrich, 5). The communist revolution was first documented as a party’s manifesto that was a revolutionary party slogan and had great influence in the world. Both Marx and Engels described the situations of the nature of the society and the politics in the world in a much different view from the dominant capitalist view.

The Communist Manifesto contained in the revolutionary party of both Marx and Engels claimed that different ideologies were held in relation to the social classes. They assumed that, “history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggle.” This meant that different social classes struggled to gain and realize their goals in the social life systems. The two argued that all desired changes in the societies, political institutions, in historical happenings and the entire society are driven by a process of collective struggle on the groups of people with similar economic situations. This was to be behind the motive to help them realize their economic interest. This explained the major causes of the historically sound factors behind the struggles, conflicts and the need for change or revolutionary in the social life systems in the world (Marx et al., par 3).

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...the times did not let the communist revolution succeed, nevertheless ideas were passed to the people and the strategies of fighting back gained momentum. Change in the ways in which wealth were distributed and acquired changed slightly as the people had gained the interest to know much behind the capitalist dominance in the societies (Weeks, 216).

The manifesto presented a unified theory on the historical dynamics as people in different classes struggled at their own level to realize a common goal or material interest. It had a disclosure in the political dynamism and the cultural underpinnings in the class-diversified world, including the art and literature derived from the then prevailing system of the material production. People though gained but little, it presented a unified whole society. The manifesto recognized the source and cause of social class struggles.