... In 1848 Marx and Frederick Engles created the Communist Manifesto, which contained their ideas on scientific socialism. The Communist Manifesto was based on three different concepts: the works of Hegel, materialism, and determinism. The works of Hegel brought about the concept of the dialectic. Materialism meant that physical matter is the only reality and within this concept there was the thesis, the antithesis, and the synthesis. Determinism ... meant that there was no free will. These three concepts, all pulled into one, made "dialectical materialism", Marx's theory. Marx's theories o...

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