The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx, from the Communist Manifesto, quoted in Berman, All That Is Solid Melts into Air, p. 95. 

The Communist Manifesto, p. 493. Marx s most extensive discussion of competition among the woricers occurs in the manuscript on "Wages",. 4Mb. 

Marx did not give much thought to the problem of providing micro-foundations for collective action. In his discussions of trade unions he downplays the immediate economic benefits, and emphasizes instead the role of strikes etc. in the formation of political dass consdousness. In the Communist Manifesto we read that "the real fruit of the workers ) battle lies, not in the immediate result, but in the ever-expanding utuon of the workers". In the manuscript on "Wages" Marx, having discussed the... 

In the Communist Manifesto Marx offers an explanation for the tendency of the workers to fight the landowners before they turn to the capitalists ... 

The Communist Manifesto, p. 486. Similar expressions are found in The Cerntan Ideology, p. 90 Deutsche-Brusseier-ZdUmg 11.11.1847 Neue Rheinische Zeitung 27.3.1849. 

A further common feature of the classical revolutions is that the republican phase is accompanied by the formation of communist movements. Marx refers to "the most consistent republKuns, in England the Levellers, in France Babeuf, Buonarroti etc." as instances of this general proposition. In The Communist Manifesto there is a brief comment on these "first, direct attempts of the proletariat to attain its own ends, made in times of universal excitement, when feudal society was being overthrown". In the undeveloped slate of the proletariat, these attempts had to fail. They mainly produced a revolutionary literature which "inculcated universal asceticism and social levelling in its crudest form". (See also 7.3.2. below.) Elsewhere the events of 1794 are also said to represent a premature bid for power by the proletariat. ... 

See notably the reference in The Communist Manifesto, p. 514 to "the revolutionary literature that accompanied these first movements of the prol riat" and that "irKulcated universal asceticism and social levelling in its crudest form". For discussion, see Moore, Marx on the Choice between Socialism and Communism, p. 12,... 

Marx, Karl, and Frederick Engels. 1977a. The Communist Manifesto. Translated by Samuel Moore. In Karl Marx Selected Writings. Edited by David McLellan. Oxford Oxford University Press. 221-47. 

The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around An Introduction to the 150th Anniversary Edition of The Communist Manifesto. Zagreb, Croatia Arkzin. 

Marx, K. (1998). The communist manifesto. New York Signet Qassic. 

Subjection of nature s forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalization or rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground - what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labor Communist Manifesto, quoted in http //www. anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html. My italics. 

The Stages of Economic Grcrwth A Non-Communist Manifesto. Cambridge Cambridge University Press, i960. 

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