Thread by @TomLondon6

“The executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie”- Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto, 1848
Discuss.

“All that is solid melts into the air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face, with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind” - Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto, 1848

“Modern bourgeois society...that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like a sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells”
- Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto, 1848

“In proportion, therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases”
- Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto, 1848

“You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for 9-tenths of population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence for those 9-tenths”
- Communist Manifesto, 1848

“Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriation”
- Communist Manifesto, 1848

“It has been objected that upon abolition of private property all work will cease, & universal laziness will overtake us.
According to this, bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs; for those who work, acquire nothing, & those who acquire, do not work”
Com Manif

“The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class”
- Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto, 1848

Communist Manifesto 1848 calls for a number of radical measures including:-
Heavy progressive income tax
Abolition of right of inheritance
Free education for all children
Abolition of children’s factory labour
All rents to go to public purposes

“[Sismondi’s] school of Socialism...laid bare the hypocritical apologies of economists”
- Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto, 1848

“The robe of speculative cobwebs, embroidered with flowers of rhetoric, steeped in the dew of sickly sentiment, this transcendental robe in which the German Socialists wrapped their sorry “eternal truths”, all skin and bone [etc etc!!]
- Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto, 1848

“Part of the bourgeoisie is desirous of redressing social grievances, in order to secure the continued existence of bourgeois society
To this section belong economists, philanthropists, humanitarians, organisers of charity, hole-&-corner reformers of every kind”
-Communist Manif

“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!”
- Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto, 1848

So, I have been reading the Communist Manifesto today.
Still relevant some 170 years after it was written

Just found to my surprise that there is a Q and A at the end by Frederick Engels!