THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO - FULL AudioBook - by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels | GreatestAudioBooks 🌟SPECIAL OFFER🌟► Try Audiobooks.com 🎧 for FREE! : affiliates.audiobooks.com/tracking/scripts/click.php?a_aid=5b8c26085f4b8 ► Shop for books & gifts: www.amazon.com/shop/GreatestAudioBooks (Greatest AudioBooks earns money off of the above affiliate links.) The Communist Manifesto was conceived as an outline of the basic beliefs of the Communist movement. The authors believed that the European Powers were universally afraid of the nascent movement, and were condemning as "communist," people or activities that did not actually conform to what the Communists believed. This Manifesto, then, became a manual for their beliefs. In it we find Marx and Engel's rehearsal of the idea that Capital has stolen away the work of the artisan and peasant by building up factories to produce goods cheaply. The efficiency of Capital depends, then, on the wage laborers who staff the factories and how little they will accept in order to have work. This concentrates power and money in a Bourgeois class that profits from the disunity of workers (Proletarians), who only receive a subsistence wage. If workers unite in a class struggle against the bourgeois, using riot and strikes as weapons, they will eventually overthrow the bourgeois and replace them as a ruling class. Communists further believe in and lay out a system of reforms to transform into a classless, stateless society, thus distinguishing themselves from various flavors of Socialism, which would be content to have workers remain the ruling class after the revolution. The Manifesto caused a huge amount of discussion for its support for a forcible overthrow of the existing politics and society. (Summary by Mark F. Smith) ► F*C*B**K: www.Facebook.com/GreatestAudioBooks ► TWITTER: www.twitter.com/GAudioBooks ► SUBSCRIBE to Greatest Audio Books: www.youtube.com/GreatestAudioBooks 🌟 Free 30 day Audible Audiobooks Trial: amzn.to/2Iu08SE 🌟 BUY T-SHIRTS & MORE: bit.ly/1akteBP READ along by clicking the Captions/Transcript button (CC). SECTIONS & Lengths: Section 1 - Bourgeois and Proletarians by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels -- 00:00:00 Section 2 - Proletarians and Communists by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels -- 00:36:00 Section 3 - Socialist & Communist Literature; & Section 4 - Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels -- 00:59:23 This video: Copyright 2012. Greatest Audio Books. All Rights Reserved. Audio content is a Librivox recording. All Librivox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer visit librivox.org. Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate and an affiliate with other select companies we earn from qualifying purchases. Your purchases through affiliate links help to generate revenue for this channel. Thank you for your support.