Doing a report on Marx/Engels

[Rebeldia]

Ok I think the topic tells what i'm doing and I was wondering if someone would be kind enough to sum up the main ideas that they have written in the communist manifesto in 1 or 2 paragraphs :) I really really REALLY need this and i can't go do it by myself right now cause i'm very short of time!

Thanks in advance :)



EDIT : srry I wanted to post this in the History section :unsure: (you can see i'm really stressed out here :P )

[Pawn Power]

Marxist internet archive (http://www.marxists.org/)

Yo, the good thing about this report is that you can learn about Marxism.

[Rebeldia]

i've been to that site before but what's written there is too long and as i said i don't have the time to summarize that by myself (and the report is due tomorrow) :(

[Misodoctakleidist]

The Communist Mannifesto is hardly a long book, you could easily read it before tomorrow.

[M.I.G.]

I would have to agree with you. But, if you still don't feel like reading, I am sure that the internet will have a general ideas of the manifesto.

[Pawn Power]

Originally posted by [email protected] 20 2004, 05:21 PM
i've been to that site before but what's written there is too long and as i said i don't have the time to summarize that by myself (and the report is due tomorrow) :(
what do you want us to do, write your report for you.
:marx: :engles:

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

:lol:
Negro, please!
It'll take you an hour to read the fuckin thing.

[Essential Insignificance]

Ok I think the topic tells what i'm doing and I was wondering if someone would be kind enough to sum up the main ideas that they have written in the communist manifesto in 1 or 2 paragraphs I really really REALLY need this and i can't go do it by myself right now cause i'm very short of time!

Marx in The Communist Manifesto, ultimately begins with the line, that he has observed throughout the annuals of history, which was not at all an original inspection: "the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles"... and this sets the "general tone" of the infamous Manifesto.

Marx thinks, and it would seem in further analyzes that -- history is but opposing class's facing each other with antagonism -- namely the oppressed and the oppressor: slave to master, lord to serf, bourgeoisie to proletarian -- generally speaking.

But the development of large-scale industry has revolutionized the class relation, and capitalism have split, and simplified the "competing" classes into two -- the bourgeoisie and proletarian.

The Manifesto is divided into four chapters, as follows: Bourgeois and Proletarians, Proletarians and Communists, Socialist and Communist Literature, Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties.

In the first chapter Marx analyses, the history and development of the different modes of production, and the corresponding relations of production, and thus human history. Each with definitive social relations and productive forces, which are split into differing epochs; usually divided into -- savagery, often coined "primitive communism", barbarism, oriental despotism, feudalism and capitalism.

In the second chapter Marx describes the intentions of communist's and how the communist and proletarian stand to each other -- that the communist interests is the proletarians, and the proletarians interests is the communist interest -- the "abolition of private property" so mankind can live in freedom, independence, and self government.

In the the third, Marx critiques three, of the times, rival "brands" of socialism: Feudal Socialism, Petty-Bourgeois Socialism, Conservative, or Bourgeois, Socialism.

The fourth chapter is the concluding chapter of the Manifesto and is extremely short, even for the manifesto. And Marx examines just what the title suggests.

As some member's have already exclaimed -- the Manifesto is very short; I would suggest to read it.

[flyby]

Here is a great short history of the Communist Manifesto, with vivid descriptions of the young Marx and Engels.

The Story of the Communist Manifesto (http://rwor.org/a/v19/930-39/936/manifest.htm)

For general history.... there is a whole page of article links on rwor.org....
with everything from red guards, to Malcolm, to the panthers, to Nat Turner to a capsule history of the Bolshevik Revolution!

RW-OR History Page (http://rwor.org/s/histry.htm)

[Roses in the Hospital]

No offence, but, surely it's going to be a fairly crap report if you can't even be bothered to read the prime source first hand... :huh: