Manifesto of the Communist Party

aI read the Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848 expressing the views from communists all over the world and put together into one book to explain why it is good for countries and the world as a whole. This book was written for one reason only and that was to promote communism throughout Europe and more importantly, throughout the world. After this book was written, the Soviet Union was created because of the ideas that Marx expressed in this book.

Over the last one hundred years this book has been looked at as the book that started several wars and several decades of difficult living in Russia and eastern Europe. On the other hand, this book has been looked at as the Bible for freedom fighters and socialists around the world for it's description of a well balanced and perfect life. Karl Marx was definitely a revolutionist and created tension for the political powers who wanted to control the world. The only thing this book wasn't expecting after its release was for Russia to turn into a total dictatorship and for lives to be wasted over the protection of one man's power. This book is a very credible source because it is the heart and brain behind communism. This book was the start of the Communist revolution and the base for every communist country since. This book is completely biased because it was only written to explain how communism is perfect and how it would trump other political systems in the future.

The book starts out by explaining in depth on how Europe is going down hill economically and socially and that something must be done about it. It states that Europe "has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation." It goes into depth about the troubles and hard times that the world is and will face during the years to come. He explains how the rigors of the world can all be healed by the power of communism. Then Marx goes into explaining the history and how Europe has gotten to where it was and how the problem could be fixed. He speaks about the Communist party and compares it to the current Proletarian party at the time and how communism could fix everything and make the world a peaceful place instead of a place that wages war. Then he ends it encouraging people especially workers to stand up and do something about it. He tries to 'pump up' the working class saying, "we shall have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all" and finishes it by saying that the Proletarians "have nothing to lose but their chains" which I think expresses perfectly how Marx feels.

This book wasn't exactly written for somebody who wants a fun and interesting story, but more to inspire people to stand up and unite and be optimistic about a perfect world. Marx uses incentive to persuade people that something must be done about the world. The Manifesto wasn't a fun read either, but it was very interesting because it ties directly into my topic and I learned a lot of the ideas behind communism. The book was also very hard to understand at times especially since it was written in the 1800s and some political groups that are mentioned several times simply do not exist anymore.

This book didn't really have any special style other than it was informational spit out fact after fact. I guess it was almost a propaganda book since it persuaded a whole revolution to occur in Russia. It also gave me a ton of historical information that I had never even heard before such as political leaders and the word bourgeois which was the word for the class of modern capitalists at the time. By reading this book, not only has my comprehension grown, but also my knowledge of how people lived and how they viewed their world and government.

I think this book is a must read for anybody who is ever interested in communism and equal rights for everyone, wasn't that in fact what our Martin Luther King Jr. was also striving for. Everybody always views communism in such a bad sense when all they ever really wanted was a peaceful place to live and equal rights and opportunities among the people. This book gives the other side to a hard topic to grasp at time, communism may only be a dream, but only time will tell how perfect our world can get.