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Frederick Engels were prolific authors of economic and political theory. Marx in particular was
a serious commentator on economic theory who wrote voluminously about the dehumanizing nature of
capitalist economics. His multivolume series on Capital
() and his Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts set
forth Marxs predilections on what he viewed as the autocratic consequences of free enterprise
and the evolution of society away from capitalism and towards socialism. In contrast to these
other works, however, the Communist Manifesto is intended less as a
protracted and sometimes utopian denunciation of capitalism, and more as a political call to
action. Note in the final passage of the Manifesto the author's rallying cry to the
masses:
The Communists disdain to conceal their views and
aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all
existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution.
The...
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