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Karl Marx outlines the core principles and objectives of the Communist party in response to the growing political influence of the movement across Europe. He posits that all historical societal development is driven by class struggle and argues that modern society is increasingly divided between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.

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II. PROLETARIANS AND COMMUNISTS

schools.     Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form.     Combination of education with industrial production, &c., &c.

When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared, and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political character. Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another. If the proletariat during its contest with the bourgeoisie is compelled, by the force of circumstances, to organise itself as a class, if, by means of a revolution, it makes itself the ruling class, and, as such, sweeps away by force the old conditions of production, then it will, along with these conditions, have swept away the conditions for the existence of class antagonisms and of classes generally, and will thereby have abolished its own supremacy as a class.

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