In other words, the ruling class will employ any moralistic ideals at its disposal to tape over the brutal system of exploitation which it rules over.įor example, we can still see capitalist morals being pushed into society over the question of benefits claimants. Marx said, “law, morality, religion are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests”. Reading the Communist Manifesto, it is easy to relate to the words written as the situation has changed very little since then. The situation Marx shines a light on does not seem 174 years old. The ruling ideas are the ideas of the ruling class It introduced the ideas of scientific socialism, which Marx and Engels would elaborate on over the next 50 years and which would serve as a guide to action for revolutionaries to come.īut more than just a historic artefact, the content of the Manifesto continues to explain the situation we are in today. Despite being centuries old, the Manifesto has been and continues to be one of the most influential books in modern history. The Communist Manifesto was first published on 21st February 1848, 174 years ago.
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