The Principles of Communism. The Communist Manifesto

"A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism..." This is how the book begins, which determined the fate of the twentieth century, in which the goals, objectives, and methods of the emerging communist parties and organizations are justified. It is in the "Communist Manifesto" that K. Marx and F. Engels outline the main ideas of Marxism about class struggle, the inevitability of the downfall of capitalism at the hands of the proletariat, and about the construction of a classless society.