nes the form of societal organization and the political and intellectual history of the epoch; and that the history of society is a history of struggles between exploiting and exploited, that is, between ruling and oppressed, social classes. (Marx 2 2) In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels declared that all history was a class struggle. “Under capitalism, the struggle between the working class and the business class would end in a new society, a communist one” (Marx 1 4). This document also analyses the realm of social life, the tasks of the Communists, and the revolutionary role of the proletariat- the creators of a new communist society. From this Marx drew the conclusion that the capitalist class would be overthrown and that it would be eliminated by a worldwide working-class revolution and replaced by a classless society. The Manifesto has been translated into many different languages and published in hundreds of millions of copies.In 1849, Marx settled in London and rejoined the Communist League and wrote two lengthy pamphlets; one called The Class Struggles in France and the other called The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. He was soon convinced that ‘a new revolution is possible only in consequence of a new crisis’ (Kreis 3). During the early part of the 1850's, Marx and his family lived in poverty in a three room flat in London. His major source of income was his friend Engels who was getting his income from a small family business. Most of Marx’s spare time was spent in a Bristish museum studying economics and social history and writing many theories. 1864 was the year that Marx’s theories started to take the interest of other people. One major group included a group of workers and German emigres who established the International Workingmen’s Association. In 1867, Marx published his first volume of Das Kapital and continued to write “treatises on socialis...
