Who Is The Communist Manifesto By Karl Marx?

In the year 1846, Karl Marx set up a Communist Correspondence Committee (“Karl Marx”, 2003; “Karl Marx”, 2016). This committee was supposed to help connect the leaders that were socialist in Europe. The organization had decided that they were aiming to overthrow the bourgeoisie and create a new society that had no classes and no private property (“Karl Marx”, 1998). After the first meeting, Karl Marx decided to finish The Communist Manifesto. The Communist Manifesto is based on the book written by Friedrich Engels called the Principles of Communism (Spalding, 2000). The book, The Communist Manifesto, was published in the month of February during the year of 1848 (“Karl Marx”, 2003; Spalding, 2000). The next month Karl Marx was then banned from Belgium and so he then moved to Cologne (“Karl Marx”, 2003). Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx founded a news paper called the New Rhenish Gazette, in order to help encourage a revolution and to publish any revolutionary activity (“Karl Marx”, 1998). The New Rhenish Gazette …show more content…
The book analyzed the theory of capitalism. The ending of the book, Das Kapital, talks about revolution. Karl Marx says that capitalism will bring forth its own destruction, and capitalist competition would itself reduce the capitalists. Karl Marx says that in the future the proletariat will become unified to overthrow the bourgeoisie and the capitalist system (“Marxism”, 2008). In 1871, Karl Marx worked on the second edition of Das Kaptial, however he was very sick during this time (“Karl Marx”, 1998). In 1881 on December 2nd, Karl Marx’s wife, Jenny Marx passed away (“Karl Marx”, 2003) . Two years later Jenny Marx, Karl Marx’s eldest daughter also passed away in January of the year 1883, and Karl Marx died two months after his daughter’s death on March 14th, 1883 and was buried in the Highgate Cemetery in London (“Karl Marx”,