Proletariat

Section Two.

Proletarians and Communists.

In what relation do the communists stand to the proletarians as a whole? The communists do not form a separate party opposed to other working-class parties.

They have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole.

It inculcated universal asceticism and social leveling in its crudest form.

The socialist and communist systems properly so-called, those of Saint-Simon, Fourier, Owen, and others, spring into existence in the early undeveloped period described above of the struggle between proletariat and bourgeoisie.

See Section 1, Bourgeois and Proletarians.

The founders of these systems see indeed the class antagonisms as well as the action of the decomposing elements in the prevailing form of society.

Section 1.

Bourgeois and Proletarians The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another.

carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended either in the revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.

The End of Section 1 of the Manifesto of the Communist Party THE MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Section 2.

Proletarians and Communists In what relation do the Communists stand to the Proletarians as a whole? The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to other working class parties.

They have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole.

Section 2.

Proletarians and Communists.

In what relation do the Communists stand to the proletarians as a whole? The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to other working-class parties.

They have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole.

It inculcated universal asceticism and social levelling in its crudest form.

the socialist and communist systems properly so-called, those of St. Simon, Fourier, Owen, and others, spring into existence in the early undeveloped period described above, of the struggle between proletariat and bourgeoisie.

See Section 1, Bourgeois and Proletarians.

The founders of these systems see, indeed, the class antagonisms, as well as the action of the decomposing elements, in the prevailing form of society.