Marx and Engels

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Marx and Engels
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Marxs Theory of History
System Ruling Class Others
Type of Govt
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The Communist Manifesto
A spectre is haunting Europe -- the spectre of
communism. All the powers of old Europe have
entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this
spectre Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot,
French Radicals and German police-spies.
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The history of all hitherto existing society is
the history of class struggles.
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• Freeman and slave, patrician and plebian, lord
  and serf, guild-master 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 a
  revolutionary reconstitution of society at large,
  or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

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• Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie,
  possesses, however, this distinct feature it has
  simplified class antagonisms. Society as a whole
  is more and more splitting up into two great
  hostile camps, into two great classes directly
  facing each other -- bourgeoisie and proletariat.
  

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• The weapons with which the bourgeoisie felled
  feudalism to the ground are now turned against
  the bourgeoisie itself.
• But not only has the bourgeoisie forged the
  weapons that bring death to itself it has also
  called into existence the men who are to wield
  those weapons -- the modern working class -- the
  proletarians.

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Masses of workers, crowded into factories, are
organized like soldiers.
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All previous movements were movements of
minorities, or in the interests of minorities.
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The proletarian revolution is the self-conscious,
independent movement of the immense majority. . .
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. . . in the interests of the immense majority.
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The proletariat, the lowest stratum of our
society, cannot stir, cannot raise itself up,
without the whole superincumbent strata of
official society being sprung into the air.
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We communists disdain to conceal our view and
aims.
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We openly declare that our ends can be attained
only by the forcible overthrow of all existing
social conditions.
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Let the ruling classes tremble at a communistic
revolution. The proletatrians have nothing to
lose but their chains.
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They have a world to win.
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Workers of the world, unite!