Manifesto de la Komunista Partio de Karolo Marks Kaj Frederiko Engels

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... sketched the following manifesto, to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages. bourgeois and proletarians. The history of all hitherto existing societyt is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master t 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, / By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern Capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage-labour. By proletariat, the class of modern wage-labourers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labour-power in order to live. tThat is, all written history. In 1847, the prehistory of society, the social organization existing previous to recorded history, was all but unknown. Since then, Haxthausen discovered common ownership of land In Russia, Maurer proved it to be the social foundation from which all Teutonic races started In history, and by and bye village communities were found to be, or to have been, the primitive form of society everywhere from India to Ireland. The Inner organization of this primitive Communistic society was laid bare. in its typical form, by Morgan's crowning discovery of the true nature of the gens and its relation to the tribe. With the dissolution of these prlm val communities society begins to be differentiated Into separate and Anally antagonistic classes. I have attempted to retrace this process of dissolution In: "Der Ursprung der Famille des, Privateigentums und des Staats," 2nd edit., Stuttgart 1888. t Guild-master, that is a full member of a guild, a...