History Re-Read

Extract from Chapter 2 of the Communist Manifesto


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Here Marx and Engels state their case for the Communist movement as being in the vanguard or all other workers’ movements. Through the manifesto’s stated tenets, Communism is given a doctrinal importance, with the implication that dissent from other proletarians is as much a threat to the movement as resistance from the bourgeoisie. 

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History Re-ReadBy Philip Gill