{"id":4839,"date":"2015-02-10T19:57:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T00:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=4839"},"modified":"2016-02-01T14:05:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T19:05:47","slug":"karl-marx-communist-manifesto-1848","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2015\/02\/10\/karl-marx-communist-manifesto-1848\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto (1848)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author(s):\u00a0<\/strong>Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Karl Marx (1818- 1883) was a prominent German philosopher whose ideas on economics, labor, and classism have and continue to influence nations worldwide.<\/li>\n<li>Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) was also an important German philosopher who shared views and co-authored with Marx.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Context:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>laid out the aims and ideals of the Communist party<\/li>\n<li>this manifesto was written after much of Europe had recognized communism as a threat to current powers<\/li>\n<li>Communists from several nations worked together to draft the manifesto to replace &#8220;the spectre of communism&#8221; with a clear representation of the party&#8217;s views.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Language:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Although originally written in German, the Manifesto of the Communist Party was published in many languages in order to reach a broad European audience\n<ul>\n<li>English, French, German, Italian, Flemish, and Danish<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Marx writes in a compassionate, but clearly phrased and organized manner. It is clear that this piece was written to address the masses in a language that they could easily understand and rally behind.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Audience:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the manifesto is addressed to self-identified communists throughout Europe in order to unify them with a concrete definition of what it means to be in the Communist party<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Intent:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to combat against hostile views of communism common throughout Europe at the time<\/li>\n<li>to refute false claims made about the communist party<\/li>\n<li>to answer to certain objections made about the communist party (ie. there will be no incentive to work in a communist society)<\/li>\n<li>to distinguish and define communism apart from other political views and past revolutions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Message:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the course of human history to this point has been defined as the struggle between classes. There has always been at least one class dominant over another class(es).<\/li>\n<li>Communism will end this struggle because it seeks not necessarily to overthrow the bourgeois, but to put an end to <em>all<\/em> class-based society and instead create a classless society.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Question:\u00a0<\/b>How is this concept of Communism initially received, and what factors contribute to this reaction of the public?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s):\u00a0Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels Karl Marx (1818- 1883) was a prominent German philosopher whose ideas on economics, labor, and classism have and continue to influence nations worldwide. Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) was also an important German philosopher who shared views and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2015\/02\/10\/karl-marx-communist-manifesto-1848\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1026,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110560],"tags":[1377,80434,94105,22806,110656,1376,1333,1323],"class_list":["post-4839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hist107-archive","tag-the-communist-manifesto","tag-classstruggle","tag-bourgeoisie","tag-communism","tag-friedrich-engels","tag-karl-marx","tag-marxism","tag-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1026"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}