Main Idea: The book was preaching for the fall of the ruling classes and the emergence
The “Manifesto” inspired people to believe that the bourgeois exploited them as well as everything else only to benefit themselves
According to Marx and Engels, the struggle of classes is inevitable. Yet, by the working class taking over, there would be no more classes and humans would be equal. The main reason behind the bourgeois being the antagonist is that they are oppressors, the inheritors of the feudal system where they exploit their surrounding. Marx and Engels condemn free trade as a mean of exploitation, which demands the poorer people and nations to depend on the richer ones. “Universal interdependence of nations” is not seen as a beneficial factor, but j
-Communism is based on the teachings of Marx and Lenin. Socialism is just based on Marx.
-Another difference is that communists call themselves socialists, while socialists never call themselves communists.