But religion, morality, philosophy, political science, and law, constantly survived this change. “‘Undoubtedly,’ it will be said, ‘religious, moral, philosophical, and juridical ideas have been modified in the course of historical development. But he argued these people were missing the larger picture. He recognized how radical this idea would sound to his readers, particularly since Communism does not seek to modify truth, but to overthrow it. When Christian ideas succumbed in the 18th century to rationalist ideas, feudal society fought its death battle with the then revolutionary bourgeoisie.”

“When the ancient world was in its last throes, the ancient religions were overcome by Christianity. “The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class,” he argued. Marx did not appear to believe that any truth existed beyond class struggle. The abolition of bourgeois individuality, bourgeois independence, and bourgeois freedom is undoubtedly aimed at.” “And the abolition of this state of things is called by the bourgeois, abolition of individuality and freedom! And rightly so. “In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality,” he wrote. Individuality was a social construction of a capitalist society and was deeply intertwined with capital itself. Therefore, the “individual” must “be swept out of the way, and made impossible.” Marx believed individuality was antithetical to the egalitarianism he envisioned. “The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital.” In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie,” he writes.īest of all, abolishing the family would be relatively easy once bourgeois property was abolished. “On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. “Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists,” he writes.īut he said opponents of this idea fail to understand a key fact about the family. Marx admits that destroying the family is a thorny topic, even for revolutionaries. In his manifesto, Marx highlighted five additional ideas and institutions for eradication.

Marx’s manifesto is famous for summing up his theory of Communism with a single sentence: “Abolition of private property.” But this was hardly the only thing the philosopher believed must be abolished from bourgeois society in the proletariat's march to utopia. Like Hitler’s Mein Kampf, readers are presented with a pure, undiluted vision of the author’s ideology (dark as it may be). Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution.” “They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. “The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims,” Marx declared in his famous manifesto. This brazenness, one could argue, is baked into the Communist psyche. Karl Marx might not have been a very good guy, but he was refreshingly candid about the aims of Communism. One of the remarkable things about The Communist Manifesto is its honesty.

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