Communist Manifesto

Society is flawed. Critical imbalances cause much of humanity to suffer. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engle’s Communist Manifesto reacts to this fact in describing a vision of a perfectly balanced society, a communist society. It is their response to the new society created by the Industrial Revolution; a massive movement away from small farms and business operated out of homes to instead huge cities with mass-producing factories and underpaid workers. This new society was …

…the area of capitalism toning it down from what it was during the time of Marx. It has helped by acting as a mirror in which it is possible to see where society is making mistakes, and where a new balance must be struck between the needs of society. Even an idea such as communism which may not be fully applicable can still have, and has had a profound effect on future society and humankind.