An ideology extremely difficult to define. Democratic ideological perspectives tend to clump anything that identifies itself at "communism" together in the same heap. But two camps of communism may be entirely inimical to each other, and have separate means and ends.
Usually, one points to The Communist Manifesto, or Das Kapital, by Karl Marx, as the guideposts into communism, but basically the communist system has many of the same traits of Hitler's Germany: dictatorial leadership, a single centralized party, ruthless terror, propaganda, censorship, a controlled economy and hostility to all organized religion. Communist ideology emphasized the working class, revolution as a means of social change, and the utopian ideal for a classless society.
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(1820-1895)
The son of a wealthy German factory owner. In 1845 the French authorities expelled Marx, and together Karl Marx and Engels went to live in Brussels.
In January 1848 Marx and Engels published the famous Communist Manifesto.
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(1818-1883)
Born in Rhineland, at Trier, of German-Jewish parents who had been converted to Christianity, Marx obtained his doctor's degree after studying the ideas of philosopher Georg Hegel. Turning to journalism to earn a living he went to Paris, where he became interested in socialistic ideas. He and Friedrich Engels published the famous Communist Manifesto. His next major work was Das Kapital, one of the most influential books of modern times.
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