The Communist Manifesto Themes

It's all about the moolah, folks. In the Communist Manifesto, Marx sees the world as defined by struggle between and among economic classes. He wanted the workforce (the proletariat) to revolt agai...

In the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx argues that struggle between and among economic classes is the fundamental factor explaining our lives and the history of society. Um, okay, but what is class,...

Class struggle wouldn't be class struggle without some competition. In the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx says that engaged in buying or selling, whether we're talking about a capitalist running a...

When one group of people has power over another group of people, some pretty ugly things can happen. In the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx sees history in terms of exploitation—it's all about the...

If you ask Marx, history is pretty much the story of rebellion against rules and order. "Hitherto, philosophers have sought to understand the world; the point, however, is to change it," he once sa...

In the Communist Manifesto, Marx says that human beings make things in order to meet their needs. Because making things is so fundamental to who we are, Marx thinks the economic time into which we...

In the Communist Manifesto, Marx uses the lens of class struggle to help us see how women's lives have been shaped by their place as an underclass within a class (the proletariat), since most of th...