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Manifesto of the Communist Party

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Samuel Moore (translator) · 1969

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The Marxists Internet Archive transcription of the 1969 Progress Publishers edition, translated by Samuel Moore with Engels in 1888 and proofed against that authorized English edition.

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  • Marx and Engels say communists share other proletarian parties' near-term objective: political rule by the proletariat after it has organized as a class and displaced bourgeois supremacy.

    • supports · part II; 1969 edition pp. 108–109

  • The Manifesto proposes converting capital into common property so that productive property loses its class character rather than turning personal possessions into collective property.

    • supports · part II; 1969 edition pp. 110–111

  • Marx and Engels distinguish abolishing bourgeois property used to command wage labor from abolishing personal appropriation for a person's own life.

    • supports · part II; 1969 edition pp. 109–111