☭ THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO – FULL AudioBook – by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

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. (Cont’d below)…- – – — READ along by clicking the Captions/Transcript button (CC).- Listen to the entire book for free!⏱️ Chapters & timestamps ⤵️☭ Section I: Bourgeois and Proletarians – 00:00:00 🔻☭ Section II: Proletarians and Communists – 00:36:00 🔻🔻 “Abolition of the Family”🔻 “The 10 Pillars of Communism”1) Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.2) A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.3) Abolition of all right of inheritance.4) Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.5) Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.6) Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.7) Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.8) Equal liability of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.9) Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.10) Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c., &c.☭ Section III: Socialist & Communist Literature – 00:59:14🔻☭ Section IV: Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties – 01:23:54🔻- – – -(Cont’d)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)